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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:02 PM Original message |
This is what MODERN POETRY is really like.... |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. Any of these would have been better, much better |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. Serious question: Is speaking so fast a necessary component of Slam Poetry? |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. It is a side effect of that fact there is a 3 minute limit. Before we had that rule ... |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
3. Oh boy. Modern and post-modern are two entirely different things. |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:29 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. No form of poetry is "dead." (it just smells that way.) |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:45 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Oh, my. |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:56 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Yet you couldn't use Google? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 04:33 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. Why would I use the google for the verse I have in my head? |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:10 PM Response to Reply #12 |
30. It may astonish you to read this, but... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
4. LOL! I love posts slamming posters that enact what they criticize. |
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A-Schwarzenegger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Heh. |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:40 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Thank you for posting so fast you couldn't have clicked on the links. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:47 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. When the premise is cR2p, the evidence can't save it. n/t |
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The Night Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
5. Style? Who cares about style? |
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tishaLA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
8. well if it's "actual post modern poetry" |
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A-Schwarzenegger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. You said it. |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:31 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. I don't engage in Somanticide. |
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tishaLA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:56 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. I can understand that. After all.... |
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gauguin57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
9. Alexander said the other day she was using Whitman as inspiration. |
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nolabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
11. Have a heart, slampoet! |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
17. I was hoping he'd have Amiri Baraka read....but that would just cause drama. n/t |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 04:03 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Me too. Amiri is a gracious person in person but he is Scathing from the Stage. |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 04:46 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Completely, but that's what makes him so exceptional. |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
18. Oh gag me. I'm a CW/Poetry major, and you are full of arrogant shit. |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 04:02 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. The Poetry Slam doesn't allow props like Maracas. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 04:09 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Not all performance poetry is slam poetry |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 04:54 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. good performance poetry is like theater |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
23. You know, normally it's the academics who take the ill-timed cheap shots at performance poets |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 04:43 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Just like factory owners always try to crush unions. |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 04:51 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. OMG how cute! |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 06:12 PM Response to Reply #28 |
35. Actually i was talking about my Great Uncle From the Flint Sit down strike but you didn't know.... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 06:51 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Your random analogies are not poetry until you make them into poetry. |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 11:25 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. If you knew anything about debate you'd know you already lost by Ad Hominem. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 06:42 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Apparently, you need to add a Latin dictionary to your to do list. n/t |
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Runcible Spoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
31. I don't give a fuck about academic vs. performance poetry or |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:51 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Have you read it? |
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Runcible Spoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 06:03 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. yep, read it and watched it. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 06:06 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Whoa, Tex, I asked a question. |
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Runcible Spoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 06:13 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. "And there are no cliches used as cliches in the poem" |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 06:48 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Yes, cliches have to be used as cliches in order to be cliches. |
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Runcible Spoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 06:59 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. I don't know why you're pushing this. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 06:56 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. Good. Where is the cliche? |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
40. thanks for this (links) |
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RetroLounge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
44. Yawn... |
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jkirch (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
45. Allan |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-22-09 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
46. Thanks for posting these. That first performance was really powerful, |
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