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Article: POETRY SLAM TEAM HOLDING FUND-RAISER
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- May 21, 2003
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Lincoln Schreiber is the head of a family that doesn't call him
son or father; it calls him `Slammaster.'
This is not the family Schreiber was born into, but the one he
became a part of by getting involved in Dayton's monthly Poetry Slam
competitions - to be later voted into the leadership position of
Slammaster.
Schreiber considers everyone who attends a slam to be a member of
this family, performers and audience members alike. `When you walk
through those doors, you're not a member of an audience, you're a
member of a family.'
Schreiber's job is to act as the CEO of the Dayton Poetry Slam
events. This includes being the MC at the monthly slam competitions,
booking featured poets to perform ...