Carvens Lissaint is a young performance artist a native from Haiti and from Harlem, New York. He first established himself as a spoken word artist in the year of 2006. He then went on to winning multiple poetry slams in the tri state area; he was the 2007 Grand Slam Champion of the highly acclaimed New York Knicks Poetry Slam, 2008 and 2009 Urban Word Poetry Finalist, he was on the 2008 Newark, NJ slam team that placed 6th in the Brave New Voices National poetry competition, 2009 Slam Global Grand Slam Champion, and has won poetry slams in various venues including the Bowery Poetry Club and the famous Nuyorican Poets Café. Carvens also debuted his one man show called “Walk” (directed and co-developed by Queen Godis, choreographed by Nicco Anann and sponsored by Urban Word NYC in collaboration with DTW) at Dance Theater Workshop where he was noticed for his high energy and crowd capturing acting skills. Carvens lives, eats, and breathes art hoping that one day he can share his light and become a better being of the Universe.

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