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Sarah Kay is a Spoken Word Poet who grew up in New York City and began performing her poetry when she was only fourteen years old.  Even though she was often the youngest poet by a decade, Sarah made herself at home at the Bowery Poetry Club, one of New York's most famous Spoken Word venues.  In 2006, she joined the Bowery Poetry Club's Poetry Slam Team, NYC Urbana, and competed in the 2006 National Poetry Slam in Austin Texas.  That year, she was the youngest poet competing at Nationals.  Sarah was featured on the sixth season of the television series Russell Simmons presents HBO Def Poetry Jam, where she performed her poem "Hands."  She has performed in venues across the country including the United Nations, where she was a featured performer for the launch of the 2004 World Youth Report.  She has performed side by side with Spoken Word superstars like Beau Sia, Taylor Mali, Buddy Wakefield, and many others.  Sarah is also a published author, whose work can be found in literary publications such as Foundling Review, Damselfly Press, decomP, among others.  In 2004, Sarah founded Project V.O.I.C.E. to encourage teenagers toward creative self-expression through Spoken Word workshops.  She has taught Spoken Word to students of all ages and most recently she has been teaching a weekly after-school spoken word class at Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Hailing from Southern California, Phil Kaye has been writing and performing spoken word poetry since he was seventeen years old.  Crowned “The 2008 Illest Collegiate Poet in the Northeast” by Brandeis University’s Spoken Heard Grand Slam, Phil has performed around the country and shared the stage with such Spoken Word legends as Anis Mojgani, Derrick Brown, and Amir Sulaiman. In 2007, Phil was the keynote speaker and performer at MassSTAR, a youth leadership conference sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Education. Phil is the creator of "Beyond Color" – a Southern California lecture series that explores the deep roots of racism and marginalization in modern society. Phil is currently the Head Coordinator of a program called Space in Prison for the Arts and Creative Expression (S.P.A.C.E.), and works to set up arts workshops in the Rhode Island Prison System. A performer, writer and teacher, Phil has worked with an entire range of audiences, and currently teaches weekly Spoken Word workshops to Maximum Security inmates.