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GOT MILK? Announces 'Poetry Slam' Semi-Finalists
Teens to Compete for Grand Prize During
'Poetry Slam'
BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 1 , 2001/PRNewswire/ -- The California Milk Processor Board (CMPB), creator of the popular GOT MILK?(R) campaign, today announced 10 semi-finalists in the GOT MILK? Poetry Slam contest. The CMPB invited California teens to submit poems dramatizing the campaign's familiar theme of "Milk Deprivation." Teens were encouraged to explore both traditional and non-traditional poetic styles, from conventional rhyme and meter to R&B & 'Hip-Hop'.
The Grand Prize winner will receive a $3,000 multimedia home computer plus have his/her poem broadcast on www.gotmilk.com. In addition to the Grand Prize winner, two finalists will each receive a $400 gift certificate at Barnes & Nobel and GOT MILK? merchandise.
"Teenagers are born poets and storytellers," says Jeff Manning, CMPB executive director, "that's why they love GOT MILK?," adds Manning. "The entries simply scream milk deprivation. I mean, teenagers know that they can't put Gatorade on their Cheerios."
The semi-finalists will 'Slam' their entries at a special 'Poetry Reading' at Raleigh Studios Pickford Theater, located at 650 N. Bronson Ave. in Hollywood on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2001 from Noon-3:00 p.m. A select panel of judges, including executives from the GOT MILK?(R) campaign, authors and teen representatives, will select the Grand Prize winner and finalists.
Poetry Slam is the competitive art of performance poetry. The Poetry Slam originated in the mid-1980s, when a Chicago poet named Marc Smith came up with the idea of a poetry competition to entertain Sunday regulars at a jazz club named Green Mill. Judges were chosen at random from the audience to 'score' the poems. The result evolved into an international art form emphasizing audience involvement and poetic excellence. Several years and evolutions later, the phenomenon caught on nationwide.
Following are the GOT MILK? "Poetry Slam" contest semi-finalists:
Smore Milk Please - Jeremy Zwang-Weissman (17 yrs old) - Los Angeles
Nightmare In Paradise - Elice Hennessee (17 yrs old) - Los Angeles
The Milk Monster - Danny Zimmerman (18 yrs old) - La Puente
Living Without You Is Like Life Without Milk - Jason Smedley (17 yrs old) - Canyon Country
Got Milk? Haiku (Resuscitate;Oasis; Sticky Bun) - Ashley Muirheid (13 yrs old) - Fresno
Ode To Milk (a sonnet) - Anna Rosenblum (17 yrs old) - San Jose
Dipsomaniac's Demise - Diana Chien (17 yrs old) - Fremont
Got Milk? - Wagma Yonus (16 yrs old) - San Diego
Sugar World - Megan Henkel (17 yrs old) - San Diego
Cruisin' For A Milk Deprivation Bruisin' - Ricardo Munoz (15 yrs old) - San Diego
The 10 Semi-Finalists were selected from over 300 entries. Criteria for selection were (I) use of the milk deprivation theme and the GOT MILK? tagline, (II) creativity and (III) originality.
About the CMPB
The California Milk Processor Board was established in 1993 to increase milk sales and consumption in California. GOT MILK? is a registered trademark and has been licensed nationally since 1995. The CMPB is funded by all California milk processors and administered by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
For more information about GOT MILK? 'Poetry Slam' contest please contact Mariluz Gonzalez at (310) 385-1697 (Mariluzrlpr@earthlink.net);
SOURCE California Milk Processor Board
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