So I've had this sore tooth thing this week, which was really a sore gum thing, which is unfortunate in a way because that means the dentist couldn't just go in, rip something out and be done with it. Now I have to take powerful pills, wait for swelling to go down, THEN go in and let her rip something out and make sure I'm not operating heavy ( Read more... )

Got this from a comment by Phil West:

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THIS is how you deconstruct slammers and slam poems ( Read more... )

Replace the following words:

rapper = poet
lyrics/lyrical = content/craft
money = slam scores

...then watch. It's not a 100% translation, but it's about 90%.

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"The sub-prime mortgage of hip-hop". WOW. Exactly.

I slammed a new poem last night, currently entitled "Lynchings". It's about poets who mimic lynchings in their poems. Aside from the elephant having sex with a Volkswagon reference, it's a pretty intense poem and I like it a lot. You can tell. It got 5 tens in the slam for it. Then I got a 1.5 time penalty ( Read more... )

So I've slammed twice this week after dusting off the poetry muscles and weeks of being a bum, a rat bum I tell ya ( Read more... )

So if you're in Columbus, come on out and cheer 'Yote and the Dayton Slam Team on!
(And have a blast - poets are SUCH fun people!)

Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Urban Spirit Coffee Shop
Street: 893 E Long St
City/Town: Columbus, OH

It's the 2nd Annual Battle of Ohio Poetry Slam and its coming back to Columbus! ( Read more... )

I won (tied) the slam last night!

I had a real itch during NPS that didn't get scratched and I haven't won a WB slam for a long time (mostly because I haven't been in them, but when I was, I wasn't doing the do).  Yesterday I said to hell with that, buckled down, wrote new work, edited old work, timed it, got it in my mouth before I actually got ( Read more... )

A comment I made over here about the recent spate of attention (read, criticism) Slam has received. I post it here because I won't be doing a column about it because my whole poetry career is proof that the criticism is stale and uninformed.
With footnotes!

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Is it that point in the cycle again? Man, let me break out my shroud and ( Read more... )

(Huh. LJ just ate my entry contents here. There went 30 minutes the library can't get back. I'll slug through it again, I guess, though it wil be shorthand this time.)Considering all of the note-taking, score-keeping and heckling last night there is a surprising dearth of recap on a show that awesome ( Read more... )