Northern Plains Intertribal Poetry Bout

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July 2004

[edit] Northern Plains Intertribal Heavyweight Poetry Bout

[edit] Joe Hipp Championship Tribute

a "WPBA Sanctioned" Championship Poetry Bout Yellowstone Public Radio coverage and possible NPR/NNN coverage with live Taping/DVD Made by the Western Heritage Museum, Billings

WHO: Opening: Night Hawk Singers, a Crow drum group from Lodge Grass

Introduction:"Allen Ginsberg Comments on Joe Hipp"1994 Poetic Tribute to Joe 'The Boss' Hipp by Allison Hedge Coke bout creator/director/promoter (Huron/Cherokee)

Fight Clip Joe 'The Boss' Hipp vs Jose Ribalta 1994 courtesy of Maryanne Hipp (Joe's sister) Joe 'The Boss' Hipp (Blackfeet) Professional National Heavyweight Boxer

Our title contenders: Henry Real Bird (Crow) & Luke Warm Water (Oglala) 1st ever Northern Plains Heavyweight Bout poet contenders

Kim Blaeser, referee/emcee (Anishinaabe), Phenocia Bauerle, rounds girl (Crow), Woody Kipp, judge (Blackfeet), Diane Glancy, judge (Cherokee), Mardell Plainfeather, judge, Big Lodge Clan of the Apsaalooke Nation (Crow)

Additional support from the local Indigenous community. Joe Hipp has been invited to attend and will if he can get in from Seattle on time.

Partially sponsored by Rocky Mountain Community College and the Billings Writer's Voice

WHEN: 5 pm, Friday, July 9th

WHERE: Venture Theater, High Plains Bookfest, Billings, Montana