[New-Poetry] Grand Slam in Land of Lakes

[Jason Quackenbush]

slam poets are so annoying. and people who write articles about slam  
poets are always talking to the wrong people.
my friend rachel mckibbens, who is on the LouderArts team, reports  
this from the bouts she attended last night:
http://lowhumcrush.livejournal.com/203818.html?style=mine

i think that's more what slam is like than "dudes and chicks spitting  
raps about expressing themselves and effecting social change, y'know  
man?"

of course, there is a lot of that bullshit in slam. but it's the  
worst of it.

On Aug 7, 2008, at 7:15 PM, jforjames at aol.com wrote:

>
> http://www.madison.com/tct/entertainment/299738
> Poets slam down their rhymes in Brink Lounge bout
> Sarah Probst  —  8/07/2008 7:45 am
>
> Their words didn't float down out of the rafters and land on our  
> shoulders. Instead, they slapped listeners across the face and  
> begged for an explanation. This wasn't a flowery, Shakespearean  
> sonnet exhibition with pentameters and rhymes and professions of  
> romantic love.
>
>
> Instead, Wednesday night was the second night of first bouts -- or  
> rounds -- of the National Poetry Slam for four teams of four poets  
> from around the continent to spit their rhymes in the city of Madison.
>
>
> "The judges are going to assign (the poets') souls a numerical  
> value," shouted host and slammer Nick to the 40 or so revelers  
> gathered in the Brink Lounge's sprawling lower level. The poet  
> implored attendees and judges to be kind, yet critical in their  
> analysis of the slammers' raps.
>
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Jason Quackenbush
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