Support Rich Ink's Journey to Southern Fried Poetry

Greetings family,

Rich Ink is gearing up for our fourth annual trip to the 2025 Southern Fried Poetry Slam in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 11th and we need your help getting us there!

This year's competitors are Malpractice, Ephraim, Steven Willis, Liv, and Will Cook!

Southern Fried Poetry Slam is an annual performing arts festival celebrating poetry, spoken word, and community outreach.

Born in 1993 from a sense of family, home cooked meals and good ol’ Southern food, Southern Fried Poetry shares the absolute best southern offerings — hospitality, comfort and tradition.

During the first week of June every year, a city in the Southeastern region of the United States plays host to one of the largest Spoken Word and Performance Poetry tournaments in the world and showcases some of the world’s most extraordinary writers, orators and artists whose talents will be on full display as they compete against 200+ poets for cash and prizes, and of course bragging rights to the South!.