A week and a half ago, when I started prepping in earnest for the new poem feature, I was struggling to get a single poem out.  Not just a decent poem; a poem.  None of my tricks were working.  I didn't want to do tricks; I wanted to do magic.  I kept saying, "Just give me five."  It was a real struggle.

I kept going back to the words of the late ( Read more... )

I probably need not further extol the virtues of Bill Campana here.  Just know that he came into the Writers' Block show Wednesday night and destroyed our night completely in the best way possible.

The guy featured for almost 40 minutes, twisting surrealism into realism, bending the walls of every eardrum to his will for miles, and had us with him ( Read more... )

All,

If you're part of a poetry audience (or just on a mailing list for a poetry event), you hear a lot of things about features when they come to town no matter where you live.  It is the job of the poetry show's organizers to convince you that the poet they're coming to see is the best cat you ever heard.

Tonight's show is not hype.

Bill Campana is ( Read more... )

- The team meeting today for our Win & You're In bout was really solid!  There is a lot of disparate Slam experience on this squad, so it's a challenge to juggle that in just a few weeks, but they're all solid workers and I care more about what they'll be like after the bout than I do if they win the bout.  The bout's one night; Writers' Block open ( Read more... )