What an awesome time!
At this point in the night, I'm still a little high off of the show. It was an awesome night of poetry, with a venue packed to its little gills. I had to give yup my door person seat so that someone could sit. Now that's dedication, son!
schroederjtand
chaptalhave some recap action up, but a couple of things from my side of the room:
- I really meant to fix that "haiku" yesterday. I was in such a rush to get them all typed up and in one place that I forgot to go back and fix that syllable in the last poem. Conversely, I read a great "haiku" that, had I changed "ticket" to "keys" like I'd intended, I might have stayed in past the first round.
- I read four haikus in the open mic: "Christopher Reed" (in honor General Zod and my t-shirt from Logic), "For Dave IGnoble", "Nutritional Value" and a dis haiku about herpes giving a woman the sensation of being "ribbed for her pleasure." Not that I know about that last one from experience, mind you. You read stuff, you hear about these things.
- The heckling was set on vaporize tonight, with not one, not two, but two and a half camps vying for heckling Oscars. There was the boisterous Boys Camp (Dave, Ed, Corey, et al.) and there was the sneaky, nail-in-a-2 by 4 Girl's Camp (Donielle, Vernell, Gina, myself...). Then there was the guy who the after-crew at Damon's decided was in fact high, not drunk. He was a camp unto himself, when you count the voices he had to be hearing in his head.
- Hey Cynthia French: we got your John Troyer here and he's been great fun and a great sport!
Joanna really came into her own as an MC tonight. She's always very solid, but tonight she got her gold medal.
What an awesome night. That was more fun than I've had with poetry in a long time. We've had really great shows since we started back this year so far...and next week's the Grand slam for WOWPS!
Poets: Tonight should show you that all of you are capable of doing anything with this art form. We're not all three-minute monsters. Some of us do more in 17 syllables than others do in three minutes (or 562 syllables). Keep pushing yourself every week, please! This is the year that can be anybody's so long as they're willing to go for it! Love you guys! (Yes, even you!)
schroederjtand
chaptalhave some recap action up, but a couple of things from my side of the room:
- I really meant to fix that "haiku" yesterday. I was in such a rush to get them all typed up and in one place that I forgot to go back and fix that syllable in the last poem. Conversely, I read a great "haiku" that, had I changed "ticket" to "keys" like I'd intended, I might have stayed in past the first round.
- I read four haikus in the open mic: "Christopher Reed" (in honor General Zod and my t-shirt from Logic), "For Dave IGnoble", "Nutritional Value" and a dis haiku about herpes giving a woman the sensation of being "ribbed for her pleasure." Not that I know about that last one from experience, mind you. You read stuff, you hear about these things.
- The heckling was set on vaporize tonight, with not one, not two, but two and a half camps vying for heckling Oscars. There was the boisterous Boys Camp (Dave, Ed, Corey, et al.) and there was the sneaky, nail-in-a-2 by 4 Girl's Camp (Donielle, Vernell, Gina, myself...). Then there was the guy who the after-crew at Damon's decided was in fact high, not drunk. He was a camp unto himself, when you count the voices he had to be hearing in his head.
- Hey Cynthia French: we got your John Troyer here and he's been great fun and a great sport!
Joanna really came into her own as an MC tonight. She's always very solid, but tonight she got her gold medal.
What an awesome night. That was more fun than I've had with poetry in a long time. We've had really great shows since we started back this year so far...and next week's the Grand slam for WOWPS!
Poets: Tonight should show you that all of you are capable of doing anything with this art form. We're not all three-minute monsters. Some of us do more in 17 syllables than others do in three minutes (or 562 syllables). Keep pushing yourself every week, please! This is the year that can be anybody's so long as they're willing to go for it! Love you guys! (Yes, even you!)