Anis Mojgani is the 2005 National Poetry Slam Individual Champion. He heavily dislikes possums, has a degree in comic books, and is a member of the Baha'i Faith. A graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design, Anis has written and performed spoken word for nearly 10 years. He has shared spots on the NYC Urbana Poetry Slam team as well as the New Orleans team. A member of the 2006 Seattle team, Anis is also the current Seattle Grand Slam Champion.

Anis has self-published four books of poetry, a one man show, and produced the spoken word album aeroplane. He lives in Portland, Oregon, in an art gallery called couch ( www.couchstuff.com ) that he and his friends run together, where he is currently working on a book length poem combining both his poetry and his visual work, to be published by Mother Press Media ( www.motherpressmedia.com ).

Poet Jon Goode hailing from Atlanta, Ga-performing on board the Carinival Cruise Ship"Imagination" during the 3rd annual HBCU Alumni Cruise.

Alvin Lau, Chicago IL USA

Alvin Lau Two-time national youth slam champion Alvin Lau's poems wait for him to fall asleep before slipping out of their cage and try to take over the world. The "Pinky and the Brain approach" so far unsuccessful, they resign themselves to being obsessive rewrites and being prodded with a ballpoint, biding their time. (Alvin secretly cheers for them.)

Lee Knight Jr.

2003 San Jose Semi-Finals Champion & 2003 Oakland Finalist, 2004 San Jose Semi-Finalist, 2004 Palo Alto Grand Slam Champion. A member of Team San Jose 2003, which took 2nd place at the Western Regional Championship at Big Sur, and went on to take 13th place out of 68 national teams during 2003 Nationals. A socio-political story teller, Lee has been reading on open mic for the last 7 years, and featured in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Las Vegas, Nevada, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose and Berkeley, California. His work has been published in: River Run 2003, the Annual Arts Journal of the University of Colorado Springs; the 2003 Survival of the Ill List Anthology; the 2004 European Poets Anthology; and the 2004 German Poets Anthology. His poetry can be seen on the Survival of the Ill List DVD and the War of the Words DVD.

Lee toured Europe as a poet for 40 days and was the first American poet to qualify for the Duesseldorf Team Poetry Finals in 2004. He formed and coached Palo Alto's first Slam Poetry Team in 2004 (which ranked 23rd in the country) and is currently the Slam Master for Palo Alto Poetry Slam. Lee's style has been described as 'Chuck D reading Noam Chomsky.

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