SFBayTimes.com – By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
“Slam is fierce. It’s so open and completely honest,” raves Kit Yan, an award-winning transgender slam poet. “And then people judge you on it, which is so heart-breaking.” After attending a poetry slam for a college assignment, he tried slamming. “And I really sucked,” Yan laughs. “I was awful. I lost every single slam that I entered for a whole year. But…eventually, I got it.”
Two years ago, Yan joined a national slam team and won the world’s largest individual slam competition and he hasn’t stopped since.