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Alyssa Pacheco is a central-Illinois based creative who's lived in Alaska, Colorado and Ohio. She's the author of "Dear, Desperation" and "Love, in Liquid Form". She enjoys hiking, camping and a solid road trip playlist, often drawing inspiration for her work from travel and music, or a good podcast or book. She believes everyone should explore expressive writing and journaling, and her goals this year are to publish her third book, expand her publishing company endeavours, submit work to journals and continue efforts in creating community around poetry and storytelling.

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Continuing with stories behind the slam, this week I share "The Great Orange Hope", a poetic tribute to Hayley Williams of Paramore, one of the most enduring pop-punk bands of a generation.

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Rachael Williams is a spoken word poet and writer from Darkinjung Country on the NSW Central Coast. She has featured at poetry slams and festivals across NSW including Byron Writers Festival, Yours & Owls Festival, and in the ACT at Canberra Slam. Williams is a two-time finalist in The National Youth Poetry Slam, and in 2024, performed with Bankstown Poetry Grand Slam for a sold-out Sydney Town Hall. Hitting venues like the Sydney Opera House and the State Library last year, Williams was the 2024 NSW State Poetry Slam Champion, and the 2024 National Runner-Up in the Australian Poetry Slam. Her collection "I Have Loved You Since You Were Tiny and Crawling, And I Wasn’t Born Or Alive Yet" launched at the State Library of NSW last October.

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