The Little Wellness Arts Center
The Music And Entertainment Report and
The Men's Brief Presents
The Greater Atlantic City Arts and Music Festival.
DJ RENEGADE has just signed up as one of the many great performers rocking
The Music And Entertainment Stage on Day Two!
Joel Dias-Porter
(aka DJ Renegade) was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, and is a
former professional DJ. From 1994- 1999 he was an Individual Finalist
in the National Poetry Slam, and was the 1998 and 99 Haiku Slam
Champion. Places his poems have been published include; Time Magazine,
The Washington Post, Callaloo, Ploughshares, Antioch Review, Red Brick
Review, Asheville Review,Beltway Quarterly and the anthologies
Gathering Ground, Love Poetry Out Loud, Meow: Spoken Word from the
Black Cat, Short Fuse, Role Call, Def Poetry Jam, 360 Degrees of Black
Poetry, Slam (The Book), Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapallooza,
Poetry Nation, Beyond the Frontier, Spoken Word Revolution, Catch a
Fire, and The Black Rooster Social Inn. In 1995, He received the
Furious Flower "Emerging Poet Award." Performances include the Today
Show, the documentary SlamNation, on BET, and in the feature film
Slam. A Cave Canem fellow and the father of a young son, He has a CD
of jazz and poetry entitled 'LibationSong'.
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