J. Bradley is a poet based out of Orlando, FL. He is the founder of the Broken Speech Poetry Slam, Orlando's longest running poetry slam. J. Bradley is a five-time member of Team Orlando and his work appeared in edifice Wrecked, Orlando Sentinel, Look Up At The Sky: Poems About Comic Books, Idiolexicon, Got Poetry? 2007 & 2008 Anthology, Word Riot, MungBeing Magazine and will appear in an upcoming issue of Clockwork Cat, At-Large Magazine, Pedestal Magazine, and a bug anthology to be published by Poets Wear Prada later this year, early next year. To book him for features and workshops, contact him at jbradley@brokenspeech.com. Below are some nice things said about him by other poets:
"[j. bradley] speaks in a voice that is instantly familiar, as if he were using words that came directly from your own mouth." Big Poppa E-1999 NPS Champion, Nationally Touring Performance Poet, Founder of the Broken Word Tour (http://brokenword.org)
"j. bradley's work is lucid and powerful. I cannot hope for more from a writer." August Highland-Editor of muse apprentice guild
"The "you" in j. bradley's work is one to be envied. To be this "you" is to be a deserved muse, wrapped in pure poetry and gut. To be truly sought after, longed for and loved. There is a cringe of tightness in his poetry and a sting of uncomfortable silence from this "you." You get a colorful sense of his loss and passion in short intervals of well-woven lyric. j. bradley has designed a pair of glasses for us to his "you" through. These spectacles look like poetry and "you" must be gorgeous." Mike McGee-2003 National Poetry Slam Individual Champion
"If you've got guillotine eyelashes ladies, you will soon yourself be rendered neckless in the eyes." Derrick C. Brown-1998 National Poetry Slam Individual Runner Up & author of If Loving You Is Wrong, Then I Don't Wanna Be Wrong
"j. bradley is a nerdy Henry Rollins." Michael Tedder-aXis Magazine
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-This was taken by Paxton of the Farmington, NM team I believe during the Jedimaster's Slam @ NPS 2007. This is me doing a Wookie Haiku. For those that did not know, Wookies, especially Chewbacca loved writing haikus. The thing about Wookie Haikus is that they aren't always 17 syllables. If I remember correctly, Big Poppa E, a potential draftee for the LA Lakers standing at 6'7" once argued with a Wookie about the Wookie Haikus not being true haikus to which said Wookie only hit him so hard, he is as tall as he is today, thus ruining his basketball career in the process. He was very very lucky that the Wookie did not rip his arms off and fist him with his severed limbs, as some of the more sadistic ones are known to do. Anyway, mad love to Erik Daniel for hooking me up with the code needed to do this.
That was great. I think you are really close to redeeming yourself from that awful poem you wrote me at the Fringe. I love you. Thank you for hanging out even when I was sleeping last night! Your food + old Angelina Jolie= happy sleepy Jelian.
Thanks for the bug poem! Don't forget to send me a couple of tracks for the April is National Poetry Month podcast I am organizing to share and air throughout the month of April.
Poet J, You are invited to come and take the stage tomorrow Night and read a poem at the open mic radio show!! Call in if you can and put your ink in our ear!
Hello whats up? remember me? well i was wondering if you still hold the slam poerty night on thursday if soo would you be soo kind as to give me directions from I-4 west if not i can try to contact becca thanks sooo much!!! holla!
Don't take it personal that we haven't been to the slam lately, just busy, doing the lesbian-nesting thing, I guess. Won't make it for the Dead Poets, but hopefully next week. Good luck with tomorrow's event!
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