Lizz Straight

Who Is Lizz Straight??



Elizabeth "Lizz" Straight has been on the spoken word scene nationally and internationally for the past eight years. This 28 year-old native of the Mississippi Gulf Coast is not only one of the United States' top spoken word artists, but she's also a radio personality and activist. She is currently the host of a weekly poetry radio show titled "Poetry Is," broadcast weekly on WMNF, 88.

5 FM, out of Tampa, FL and on the web at WMNF. org.

She was WMNF's Programmer of the Year for 2007. She has been applauded for her work in correctional institutions throughout central Florida, bringing poetry into the walls of the prison system. Some of her other accomplishments include winning First Place in the Southern Fried Poetry Slam in 2003, Second Place in the Southern Fried Poetry Slam in 2004, Second Place in the Southern Fried Poetry Slam in 2005, Fifth Place in the Southern Fried Poetry Slam in 2006, Second Place in the Southern Fried Poetry Slam in 2007, and First Place in the Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival Poetry Slam in 2006.

She is a member of the Tampa chapter of the Tallahassee, FL based poetry troupe, Black on Black Rhyme, blackonblackrhyme. com, the largest spoken word poetry collective in the country. She has opened for international recording artists such as The Last Poets, Dwele, and Chrisette Michelle. She was featured in the documentaries Rhapsodists and Portrait of a Poet (video below), which was accepted into the Hollywood Black Film Festival in 2007.



Check out a Lizz Straight's most recent published work in The Pedestal Magazine at Thepedestalmagazine. com.



Portrait of Poet!!



Lizz Straight: Portrait of a Poet



ME AND SANIA AT SOUTHERN FRIED FINALS



Sania_Lizz_SouthernFried07 Finals



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ME AT THE WOMEN'S SHOWCASE AT NATIONALS 2006



"Timber" by Liz Straight



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Lizz Straight Featuring in Louisville, KY - "Mudd Pies"



Lizz Straight and Asia - Southern Fried 2008 Finals "Battlefields and Bruises"



Lizz Straight at Southern Fried 2007 - Columbia, SC Bout 1 (and yes i did get a 30!)



Lizz Straight at the Lobby - St. Petersburg, FL "The Other Half"



Lizz Straight hosting the 1st annual Diva Showcase - Tampa, FL 2008



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