On the margins: poetry that cuts through the city

Born in Sobral, CE, she is a poet and cultural producer active since 2015. Recognized in the Ceará slam scene, she co-founded Slam da Quentura and the Slam Ceará network, of which she is one of the coordinators, together with Coletivo Fora da Métrica. As the creator of Produção de Perifa, she promotes training in cultural production for people from the peripheries, seeking inclusion and recovery through writing. Awarded the Pretas Potências Award in 2023 by Preta Hub and the Ministry of Culture, her work revolves around promoting art and culture, in addition to managing the careers of artists and independent cultural spaces.

Maria Thais, also known as Thay, I am an artist born and raised in Bairro Dom José in Sobral, CE. My involvement with art began at school, where she participated in activities such as theater, ballet and choir, programs that existed in the public school system. At SAFS, an NGO in my neighborhood, I had my first contact with cultural production, photography, crafts and percussion, opening paths for my artistic development. Currently, I am a poet, slammer, percussion lover, cultural producer and law student. I organize Slam das Cumadi, the first spoken word poetry competition for women in Ceará and I am part of Coletivo Fora da Métrica, contributing to the organization of Slam da Quentura and Slam Ceará.

I'm Wisley Nascimento, better known as “MC Barnabé”. I'm the producer of Batalha do T.N., an MC battle that began in 2017 in the square of the Terrenos Novos neighborhood, on the outskirts of Sobral. I began my career as an improvised MC on the battle circuits in the northern region of Ceará. Today, I have songs released on the main digital platforms. I write and recite poetry in schools, Slams and rhyme battles.

I am Bianca dos Santos Gomes, better known as Cacheada Santtos, and I have been in the poetry scene since 2017, when I began my journey in the slam scene. I am the creator of Slam das Cumadis, the first female poetry slam in the state of Ceará (2018). I have always been interested in the city's cultural movements, especially those that involved written literature and performance. I am a youth coordinator in territory 01 and have been working as a harm reduction activist for 5 years in Sobral through UGP-PV (Violence Prevention Project Management Unit), where my strength is working with art, communication, and possibilities for new life projects through art and access to public policies.

Charles Miller Rodrigues Viana, 31 years old, Raju's father, Brazilian, Rua Moisés Plínio de Arruda, 153, Cidade Pedro Mendes Carneiro, Sobral--CE, Passion for Poetry, Music and Theater. In Theater, he participated in the play From the Circus to Stand Up – Project Tuesday of Grace, in 2016, with the character Ballerina; in the sketch The Princess and the Frog – free presentation in 2017, with the character The King; in the play My mother is a comedian – group: Bullynagem, with the character Calado. Music: Coral Vozes de Sobral (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019). Cantarolando Extension Group 2018, Coral Symphony (IFCE) 2019.
I write poems for the blog http://charlesmillerpoesias.blogspot.com

Flow is a multi-artist living in the outskirts of Sobral. She began her career at the age of 13 at the Slam das Cumadi, being the “youngest” of the poets, and also in the rhyme battles spread throughout the city. She participated in workshops and soirees held by the Sobral Slam poetry scene. She was also a student in the 3rd class of the production of the outskirts held in 2023, the year in which she also won the final of the Slam da Quentura and was its representative at Slam Ceará, coming out with first place and the immensity of representing our “little princess of the north”. Flow defines herself from her experiences and I don't give up on that.

Hi! I'm LK, I participate in rhyme battles and I'm 17 years old, I also write poetry, lk_damidia57 on my Instagram slg, There you go!

I'm Rêh, an independent artist, 27 years old, a Sagittarius, always in the middle of the fire, the flame. I practice juggling, more specifically, the Devil Stick. I started getting involved with the art of juggling between 2014/2015. I'm one of the organizers of Batalha da Margi, and I'm currently leading the Quentura battle, the Quentura Slam, together with the Fora da Métrica collective. I've been involved with poetry since elementary school. I've always liked reading poems and poetry, until I started writing about myself, my feelings and my fears, as a way of letting off steam, but I never intended to show it to anyone, because it's always been a very intimate thing. So time passed and, at a time when I was very vulnerable, in a not so good phase, I saw a different movement in the arch, a poetry circle, where I heard poems that touched me, and it was there, in 2018/2019, that I got to know the SLAM scene through Slam da Quentura, and it was there that I felt comfortable putting out a part of me that had always been hidden.

My name is Carlos, known on the streets as MM, battle MC and poet since I was 16, starting my journey on 07/15/2019 at Batalha da EJ, where I managed to conquer my space and start my story directly in the hip-hop universe.

Rayssa, 25 years old, is a poet, writer and composer born and raised in the outskirts of Sobral. Graduated in the 3rd class of the Produção de Perifa course, she combines her experience and sensitivity in her works.

I am Sanoj, also known as the King of the Dance, a resident of the outskirts of the city. I am in my early twenties. Although I am small, I am the opposite of your perception. I am a poet at his worst. I come through this message to convey what I feel and I try to echo through my fingers everything that hurts where the flesh does not feel. I write for myself, for you and always for us!

Mrs. Preta, 21 years old. Black woman from the outskirts, singer, poet, slammer, mother, Umbanda follower. She began her artistic-cultural journey through marginal poetry and the Slam movements in 2018. Member of the Canta Mina project, a project that has been professionalizing women in singing since 2019. Her main style is rap and its offshoots and brings interpretations in different poems and musical genres.