GEOFF TRENCHARD

Renowned for his “brilliant imagery and noir narrative”, Geoff Trenchard is a spoken word artist based in Oakland, CA. After touring the nation as a part of the 2000 San Jose Slam Team, he has continued to be an integral part of the Bay Area scene. He has won a place on five different teams, including the 2002 Berkeley team, who won the Western Regional competition that year. In 2003 he was featured on the final episode of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam Season 3. He’s also coached the UC Berkeley Slam team to 1st place at the ASUC Collegiate Nationals. His publishing credits include Tea Party Magazine, The National Poetry Slam Anthology, and the Worcester Review.

Geoff has been a guest performer and lecturer at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and Arkansas University, among others. Currently Geoff holds the position of Mentor at YouthSpeaks, the premier youth poetry, spoken word, and writing program in the country. He also works with the Art Gate program, producing curriculum geared toward at-risk youth. He continues to write and tour with the performance poetry trio “The Suicide Kings”.

Geoff can be contacted at yosairian@yahoo.com.

GEOFF TRENCHARD PRESS

"But what of Geoff Trenchard, Kennedy’s comrade-in-barbs, co-creator of Tourettes freewheeling, dirty-dealing vaudeville show? The tattooed Trenchard can hold his own, and has done so alongside McSweeney’s protegee Chinaka Hodge on the most recent season of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and as a Bay Area Poetry Slam Champion since 2000.”
- East Bay Express, January 7, 2004

"Trenchard was by far the more humorous writer of the four, beginning his first piece with an insider’s look at being a waiter on the night shift at Denny’s. But with this ironic attitude and cynically humorous commentary on people and their downfall, there is a wholly serious message that pervades his work. At one point, his protagonist recognizes a girl from his high school looking for lost serotonin and innocence in the end of her cigarette while standing outside Denny’s. Trechard delivers his poetry as if he is having a greatly exaggerated conversation with the audience. His face is expressive as he speaks, and he gives a very candid picture of his own self-image. Trenchard has found the prose in poetry."

Public Radio Conference
May 11-17, 2003
http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/prc03/teri_script.html

Debate Team is No. 1 in Western region
May 10, 2004
http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/2004/spring/72.htm