If you are looking for more destinations concerning slam poetry, here’s a place for you to go. It’s called “Cloudy Day Art”, and it’s run by a guy named Will Brown, another poet in poeticsphere(tm) (I made that up first… you saw it here first!). Hmmm… “Poeticsphere”… sounds like it could be the name of a new project of mine. OK, let’s shorten that word a little bit.. how about “Poetisphere”? Pronouncing the “c” was a pain. Oh shoot… the name (as I suspected it might) is already taken!
At any rate, I’ve not been through the entire site, but I like the concept he presents. If you have a Broadband connection (or you have the patience to sit in front of your dial-up connection forever), take a look at this post from his (Will’s) blog. It’s a video clip of a slam poet named Mike McGee. His piece has got me buzzin’; I loved it. In some parts of his piece, I’m reminded of my whole “mission” (if you will), as it concerns spoken word/slam poetry.
I do spoken word/slam poetry because I have a passion for it. For me, it is avenue for exercising the gifts and talents that have stayed locked up too long.
Sure, I want to entertain… but even more, I want evoke and emote. If in some way I can take an unclear idea and promote it’s worthiness into your head and heart, then let every piece be marked with that kind of start and may they end in the same way, faithful to the beginning. So, whether at the start of a show or its ending, whether I was treated as kind or whether people found my words offending, so long as I was not pretending in my projections, selections, and verbally voluminous orally-faced ejections, then I’m OK.
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