March’s slam features Desdamona!!!
As a number of our squad are recently back from the Women of the World poetry slam, we’re pleased to announce that our second-to-last slam of the season will be amazing. Hosted by Ruth Kohtz and featuring Desdamona.
Desdamona is an international award-winning artist; who has taken her distinct lyrics, sounds, and artistic stylings to audiences from Minnesota to Hawaii to Puerto Rico to Germany; gracing some of Hip Hop and poetry’s most illustrious stages. Desdamona has had the pleasure of opening up for distinguished artists including Wyclef Jean, GURU, Bahamadia, Zap Mama, Black Uhuru/Sly & Robbie, Saul Williams, Ursula Rucker, KRS ONE and Rhymesayers artists. She has also shared the stage with influential Hip Hop artists including Canada’s Eternia, Medusa and Bgirl Rockafella.
Desdamona has worked in over 200 schools throughout the Midwest, conducting workshops and as artist in residence, working with more than 10,000 students in public, private and alternative schools as well as colleges and universities. She has also worked in residencies and workshops in Stillwater Prison, Shakopee Prison, Red Wing Juvenile Facility and the Juvenile Detention Center in Minneapolis MN.
We’re extra lucky to know this slam will be hosted by Ruth F. Kohtz. Ruth Kohtz is a performer who sometimes writes. She has appeared as herself for Punch Out Poetry, SlamMN!, Soap-boxing Poetry Slam, Riot Act Reading Series, and the Sidetrack Lounge in Lincoln NE. Her work has been published in the Midway Journal and the forthcoming “The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets”. Ruth also performs as the tambourine half of a Lady Gaga cover band.
