Lindsay Miller found slam poetry when she wandered into the Mercury Cafe in Denver, CO on Halloween of 2004.  David Blair was featuring, and it was love at first sight.  (With slam, not with Blair.)  Upon moving to Tucson, AZ, Lindsay co-founded the Ocotillo Poetry Slam along with Teresa Driver and Maya Asher.  They produced their first slam in October of 2005, beginning with a budget of zero.  Three years later, the Ocotillo Poetry Slam, Tucson’s only Poetry Slam, Inc. registered event, is a recognized literary presence locally and nationally, with Lindsay as its Slammaster.

      Lindsay has competed on slam teams representing Tucson regionally and nationally since 2006.  As an individual, she competed in the Arizona All-Star Slam 2007 and the Women of the World Poetry Slam 2008 and 2009.  She was the Tucson City Slam Champion in 2007 and 2008.

      At the 2007 National Poetry Slam in Austin, TX, Lindsay was the only person to compete in both the Youth Slam and the Slammaster’s Slam, making her the youngest registered Slammaster in the country.

      Lindsay's poetry has been described by listeners as "like watching Big Fish on acid."  Most of her poems are proper nouns.  She is especially inspired by people who are cooler than she is, and is prone to occasional outbursts of feminism.

      She has given workshops on poetry and performance in classrooms all over Tucson, usually to enthusiastic crowds, although one high school student recently confessed to falling asleep during her reading.

      She has self-published two chapbooks, Anna Perenna (2005) and Pull Yourself Up By Your Crutches (2008).  Her work is also available in the Team Tucson 2007 chapbook, Smells Like Tigers, and the Team Tucson 2008 CD, Just Add Genius.

Doc Luben, the 2009 Tucson Slam Champion, is a wildly ambivalent poet who has been stomping the stage in Cali and AZ since well aught 1990. He earned his street cred in 1990’s Los Angeles, writing and performing in loading-dock theater and guerilla Improv, and then squandered said street cred on a decade of Shakespeare and experimental drama in Hollywood, New Mexico, and Prescott AZ. There he was tempted into the evils of Slam at the (badly missed) MAD Linguist; he earned a spot three consecutive years in the Arizona All Star Slam. Doc was a featured poet at the first and (later) the last Arizona Spoken Word Festival at Arcosanti (the old beloved Slab City Slam), and more recently represented Tucson to the Individual World Poetry Slam in 2008. Doc trained at the freakishly progressive California Institute of the Arts. Also, your girlfriend has a crush on him. Don’t worry. It’s normal.