What Is Poetry Slam? : The Introduction I Read This Morning

[scottwoods]

I opened my feature/Q&A at Frederick Community College with this prepared statement, which I wrote at 6 AM this morning.The audience was mainly college students and faculty with no Slam experience. Between this statement, 40 minutes of my poetry, and a nice Q&A we had an awesome time.

Enjoy.

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Let me begin with this:

The short

Comments

[louiserobertson]

Well said. I'd really like to hear that Woods-Orr conversation.

[javabill]

AMEN!!

[nerak_g]

HALLELLLLOOOOOO!!!!!

[hot_rod_poet]

It is not always great art - many are not great poets - but there isn’t one who doesn’t want to be, even fleetingly, just once, one week out of the hundreds of weeks that make up their lives. Poetry slams don’t prove that you are good. They do not require that you be good. They merely ask that you try…very publicly and democratically and by fire.

One of the most lucid things I've ever read about poetry slams. Well done.