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Description

Gus is a performance poet from Atlanta. He has been to the National Poetry Slam twice as a competitor for the Art Amok! Slam Team and competed at the Southern Fried Poetry Slam with the team Voices. He placed 3rd at the 2010 Southwest Shootout Individual Poetry Slam and placed 2nd in the Slam Idol Online Poetry Competition as well as 2nd place in the 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam Haiku Head to Head. His work has been featured in Some Weird Sin Literary Magazine and the Borderline Poetry Journal (for which he received a Pushcart Prize Nomination). He has performed in the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival, the Atlanta-based poetry show Wish You Were Here, and at poetry venues throughout Atlanta and Ohio. He likes manatees and smokes a pipe. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)