Bio
Richard Cambridge won the Master's Slam at the 1997 National Poetry Slam, and was also a member of the 1992 Boston Championship Slam Team, and 3rd Place 1993 Cambridge team.
His awards include the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize, and finalist for a residency at '~he Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Publishing credits include Heartland Journal, Paterson Literary Review, Defined Providence, Red Brick Review, :Squawk, Nantucket Journal, Asheville Poetry Review, and others.
His one-person theater piece, The Cigarette Papers has received wide acclaim in (~oth the medical and literary communities, and has been called "a tour-de-fome" by the Boston Globe.
He produced and co-authored Where the Red Road Runs, a dramatic performance of poetry and music providing a Native American perspective of the European settlement of the Americas. The show had a five month run at Catch a Rising Star in Cambridge, MA.
He is current work is as co-founding member of Singing with the Enemy, a troupe of poets, musicians and performance artists. Their show, IEMBARGO! is a dramatic I mura of poetry, music, and dance dedicated to bringing awareness to the devastating effects of the United States' 40-year economic blockade on the people of Cuba. By special invitation, the troupe performed in Havana, Cuba in July of 1998 at the historic First U.S.--Cuba Friendship Conference.
He curates the Poets' Theater at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA.