Fighting Crime across The Untied States for the better part of the past 2 years, The Dynamic Duo are poetry's favorite crime fighting pair.  Heralded for their high energy live performances involving complex dual voice work, comedy, and emotionally raw poetry Panama Soweto and Ken Arkind have brought their show to both coasts and all points in between.  From The Nuyorican Poets Café and The Bowery Poetry Club in New York City to Da Poetry Lounge in Los Angeles, World Famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Yale, Rutgers and numerous universities, slam venues and high schools across the country.

They have been featured in the documentaries "SPIT!" and "Slamplanet" and have been on a combined eight Denver area slam teams including the 2006 National Championship Team.  Panama Soweto is a two-time member of the Mercury Café Slam Team (home of the 2006 National Championship title) and a founding member of the Slamnuba! Team.  He was the 2005 and 2006 Pablo Neruda Poetry Festival Barrio Slam Champion.  He is currently a Teacher for The Denver Housing Authority and has spent many years working with underprivileged youth as an art teacher and educator.

Ken Arkind is a five-time member of the Mercury Café Slam Team and 2 time National Poetry Slam Finalist being on the 2004 2nd place Team and The 2006 Championship Team.  A 2004 Barrio Slam Champ and 2005 Denver City Slam Champion.  He is the current project coordinator for the Denver Minor Disturbance Youth Slam and has taught workshops in numerous high schools and Juvenile detention centers throughout the mid west.  
   
They have shared stages with notable performance poets The Chicano Messengers of Spoken Word, Mike McGee, Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, Andrea Gibson, Blair, and New York's Jive Poetic Falu, Rainmaker, and Mahogany Browne.  Musicians such as The Flobots, Zebra Junction, and Sage Francis as well as World Famous Last Comic Standing winner Josh Blue.
   
Their work covers subjects as far reaching and broad as politics and video games, depression and comic books, racism and relationships proving that poetry can be about whatever you want it to and that it can be enjoyed by anyone.