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Exodus

Stacy W. Smallwood, also known as Exodus, is a poet and health advocate who has been writing for eight years and performing his poetry for three. His work has been featured at open mics, slams, workshops, and cultural arts events across the southeastern United States. He has competed at the 2003 Southern Fried Regional Poetry Slam and the 2003 & 2004 National Poetry Slam as a member of the Columbia, SC Slam Team. In 2004, he won the Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival Poetry Slam and was a finalist in the first annual Individual World Poetry Slam!

Exodus' work is not just restricted to slam stages and open mics. His poems have been published in THRIFT Poetic Arts Journal . He was featured alongside fellow poet Tameka Barnett on the SCETV television show “Connections” and in the poetry/spoken word documentary “My Soul Speaks.” He has donated recordings of his work to the Mahogany Pearls CD Project, a benefit CD of poetry and music to raise money for the Somali Bantu refugees that are relocating to Columbia. He conducts numerous poetry workshops for young people at the elementary, middle, and high school levels as a member of the Split P Soup poetry outreach initiative, and is a co-director of Authentic Voices, a monthly poetry series in Sumter, SC.

For booking or more information email him at cobalt_thunder@yahoo.com.