Slam dunked

Albuquerque High School student Damien Flores reads his poem "Random Haiku Death Match" during a poetry slam at the Blue Dragon Coffee House on Feb. 13.

Tonight marks UNM's first annual Slam Off Finals, an event which will send a team of poets to the 2004 College Unions Poetry Invitational.

Danny Solis, organizer of Poetry and Beer - Albuquerque's longest running poetry show - with be host to the slam at 7:30 p.m. at Higher Grounds in the SUB.

The first four finishers in this three-round competition will head to the University of California-Berkeley for the invitational and become UNM's first poetry slam team.