by Elise Maynard | Oct 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hey. So, I wrote a new poem… Wow. So almost 3 days ago (it was about 7pm at night) I recorded a Facebook LIVE of me doing a poem I had JUST written. I just needed to speak it, it needed to be out. It was like my body was burning every second I kept it...
by Elise Maynard | Aug 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’ve never been into conferences. I guess I never had something I loved enough or was passionate enough about, to make the idea of being surrounded by hundreds of other people all passionate about the same thing that appealing. I mean, there was the juggling...
by Elise Maynard | Aug 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
FollowFollowFollowFollowFollowFollow And it begins. Today the battle for the semi finals began with the first round of bouts, the action is on and the energy in town is palpable. We began our day early and headed into town for our first event. An open mic on the...
by Elise Maynard | Aug 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Day one: Today was registration day for NPS. We spent the morning as a team running through our pieces and looking over our coaches pieces. Originally Ben was not meant to be performing at NPS, as our coach, his role is more off stage, however with the shocking news...
by Elise Maynard | Aug 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Recap: Two months ago something rather incredible happened. I was awarded a place on the first ever Poetry Slam team to represent Australia in the National Poetry Slam, USA. The team consisted of myself, John Englezos, RikTheMost, and wāni. plus our coach Benjamin...
