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Host: Jerry Quickley Jerry Quickley, one of the most well known and well regarded performance poets in the United States. Most recently he's performed on the HBO special Def Poetry Jam with Mos DEF, and the PBS documentary series Senior Year, and has been commissioned to develop a one man show. He is also frequently asked to contribute to a variety of books and publications, including the upcoming Elevate the Mind State (Source Books:2002) and Short Fuse (Rattapalax/Putnam:2002). Jerry Quickley, originally from NYC, is currently living in Los Angeles. He has performed and been commissioned to perform at festivals and venues across the United States and extensively abroad. Jerry is also a three time Los Angeles Poetry Grand Slam winner, and a multiple National Poetry Slam finalist. He has been featured and his work has been published in several anthologies, magazines, and newspapers including Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, SP Mag, Beyond the VCP, LA Weekly, Associated Press, and several others. His work is also published in the book "Soul of the Game" (Melcher Media: 1997), Slam (Penguin-Putnam: 2000) and he is the editor of the anthology "Juke Joint Magic" (Juke Joint Still Press: 1998). He has performed his poetry on the LifeTime Cable Network, CNN, and written for NFL Films. Jerry has also recorded songs with a number of hip hop artists including 2Mex (B-Boys in Occupied Mexico), E-Rule (Cold Currents), The Unbound Project (Chuck D, Pharaoh Monche, Zach de la Rocha, Saul Williams, and others), Senior Year (Medusa, Rakaa Iriescience, Ani DiFranco The Coup, and others) and several others. Jerry has also curated poetry and hip hop shows for a number of institutions including the Theater De Klange Dusseldorf, The Carmel Performing Arts Festival, Bordeaux Cultural Affairs, Munich Landsberg Festival, West Hollywood Book Festival, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The Mark Taper Forum, and several companies in the private sector.