For the first time since 1992, the home team was crowned the National Poetry Slam Championship Team.  That's right, the winning team was none other than Albuquerque!  

Slamming to a sold out show at the Kiva Auditorium, Albuquerque, Charlotte, Hollywood, and Fort Worth dazzled the crowd with strong dynamic work.

Team Albuquerque is Hakim Bellamy, Carlos Contreras, Cuffee, Kenn Rodriguez, and Esme Vaandrager.

Congratulations to

Janean Livingston & Anis Mojgani,

the 2005 Indy Poetry Slam Champion.

Special huge thanks to all the volunteers, the ABQ slam community, the supportive populace of ABQ, our sponsors and community partners for making NPS 2005 a huge success.  We couldn't have done it without you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!