About The Bell Curve: It's only taken seven years for Beverly Wilkinson to admit that the performance poetry subculture has a lot to offer an average girl leading an average life. Now, she won't shut-up about it. Beverly offers her point of view as a woman with a full calendar, a corporate alter-ego and a perpetual passion for poetry. She is not legendary and she doesn't suck either; this puts her at the top of the bell curve.

About the author: Beverly Wilkinson is the host and SlamMaster for Word Dancing, a weekly poetry open mic and monthly slam in Newark, Delaware. She is a human and thus inherently flawed. Beverly tends to lead with her emotions, defend with acidic wit and traverse the hard, often rocky and heart-breaking road to get where she needs to be. She leads an average life with random fits of normalcy and cathartic outbursts. Beverly is the author of two chapbooks of poetry and has been published in two anthologies, High Desert Voices � The 2005 National Poetry Slam Anthology and Look Up in the Sky! An Anthology of Comic Book Poetry. Her work has also appeared in a local literary magazine called Dreamstreets. She has led poetry workshops at local high schools and at the Ferris School for Boys, a residence for juveniles. She has also taught classes on short story and journal writing. Beverly coached the first slam team to ever come out of Delaware to the National Poetry Slam in 2005 and again in 2006.