Adam Gregory Pergament, a Finalist for Best Artist in the First Annual Madison Area Music Awards (2004), is a spoken word artist who has managed to bridge the gap between the poetry and music communities in Madison, WI. His dynamic style of flowpoetry performance and delivery combined with a clear sense of rhythm, musicality, and a highly condensed depth of polyglottal poetic language make him one of the most riveting and unique performers on the Madison Music Scene. Adam speaks shamanically through poems of Asian Gods and Goddesses, tells cowboy stories of the Wild West and the Railroad Age, and poetically whispers, rants, croons, and rages about Love and War. He has performed with jazz groups, rock and roll bands, and as a solo poet.

Adam Gregory Pergament was born August 6th 2002 (the date of his first public flowpoetry performance in The United States Of America). In earlier incarnations, he received a BA in English Literature and Political Science and currently holds an MA in Languages and Cultures of Asia. He is also the last remaining student of the now non-existent Buddhist Studies Ph.D. program at The University Of Wisconsin-Madison and met all requirements toward that degree save for writing an academic dissertation. He is committed to education and has taught English As A Foreign Language for over 14 years in all parts of Asia, at The University Of Wisconsin-Madison, and currently at Madison English As A Second Language School. In addition to writing, teaching and performing, Adam drinks tea.

For more information, please visit Adam's website.

Workshop Information

Adam is available to teach and facilitate spoken word performance workshops, writing workshops, and poetry gatherings during which students of all ages might have the chance to read their words aloud and come to learn more about themselves (through beginning to their poems) and about the musicality inherent in language.

Fee: Afternoon workshop--$150
Residency--$800
(The aforementioned fees are negotiable and include a donation to The Madison Center For Creative And Cultural Arts).

Availability: Open