I first started writing poetry after creating a really inappropriate piece of art for a corporate sponsored show. The artist who had initially challenged me to create something for the show verbally bashed my piece, not knowing it was mine.

The piece was so inappropriate I was requested by my supervisor to remove it before the jurors arrived, not wanting any more eyes to see it than already had.

I named the piece “Schizophrenic Cunt-tree.” Like its title, the sculpture was a tree decorated with various paraphernalia expressing all the voices inside my vagina. After profusely apologizing the artist and I became friends. He took me to my first slam poetry event and I was hooked. I started writing. Performing usually for loud, drunken bar crowds, I discovered that funny, angry chick poems received the most applause and highest scores. I crafted my poems accordingly and the following summer made it on the Cleveland Ohio slam team and headed for the nationals in Austin, Texas.

Archive of Slam Poems