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Via: NewsObserver.Com
For Chris Massenburg, the Bull City Slam Team has been a labor of love that’s bearing fruit beyond Durham.
Now as the 36-year-old leads his team through this week’s National Poetry Slam in St. Paul, Minn., he does so with some bona fides. The spoken-word artists took first place in the Southern Fried Poetry Slam, a regional contest, in June. It was the team’s first since forming in 2005. The win brought praise from county leaders during a Durham commissioners meeting.
But Massenburg says he’s most proud of how the team’s success is feeding a new group of young poets in the Triangle.
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