| Hey, LJ Friends! |
[05 Nov 2009|04:08pm] |
What lit journals do you typically read and/or recommend to others? I am looking specifically for print recommendations, as most of my reading time happens on the train.
Also, is anyone interested in hearing my reviews of different journals?
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| btw |
[11 Oct 2009|06:07am] |
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By my count, the only ten of the night went to Khary in round 1.
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| Hey, JohnnyLexicon! |
[23 Sep 2009|10:08am] |
I just booked myself a room for next month at the Clift Hotel, which appears to be about a block and a half from Bourbon and Branch. I need to know the following:
a) Is it an okay place to go by myself, as the lone business traveler?
b) Will I need a reservation for just one person?
c) Is it a safe walk?
Anyone else sticking around the Bay a bit after iwps? Wanna drink there with me?
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| Community Supported Agriculture |
[21 Sep 2009|01:49pm] |
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Does anyone know things about or has anyone participated in a CSA? TP and I are thinking about joining one for organic meat, and potentially one for produce, but I am curious if there are any pitfalls. Right now, our biggest concern is how much we could take in a monthly delivery, considering our freezer space.
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[21 Sep 2009|09:02am] |
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If my last name were Katz, I would definitely name my son Lowell.
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| Newsflash! |
[15 Sep 2009|10:59am] |
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PSi expands iwps field to 96 competitors.
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| By Popular Request |
[11 Sep 2009|12:55pm] |
These are folks who, as long as they represent the slams they say they represent, are in for certain:
Home Slam Name Legal Name
ABQ Damien Flores
"Accident Lab Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak
Art Amok ATL April SMith
Berkeley PS Kevin Holmes
Boise Poetry Slam TBD
Bythis Thomas Budday
Cantab April Ranger
Dallas Poetry Grind Joaquin Zihuatenejo
FlagSlam Judiah Christy
Fort Worth Don Juan Hutchinson
Hampshire County Slam Collective Sean Patrick Conlon
HawaiiSlam Steven Kealoha Wong
Lizard Lounge Nicole Rodriguez
LoserSlam Chad Anderson
louderARTS - TBD
Madison Poetry Slam Evy Gildrie-Voyles
Mental Graffiti Iggy Mwela
Mercury Cafe Ayinde Russell
Mesa Slam Brit Shostak
Montevallo Poetry SLam Quang Do
Nuba Theo Wilson
Ocotillo Poetry Slam Michaela Randleman
Omaha Healing Arts Poetry Slam TBA
Ozarks Jeremy Sparkman
Phoenix Downtown Poetry Slam TBD
Providence Poetry Slam Megan Thoma
Salt City Slam Joshua McGillis
San Jose pOEtry Slam TBD
Seattle Poetry Slam TBD
SF 's The City Slam & Experimental Mic. Denise Jolly
Slam Charlotte Andrew Clinkscale
SlamMN Sierra DeMulder
Spokane Poetry Slam Kurt Olson
St. Paul Soapboxing Khary Jackson
Still Waters Shelly Davis
The Oakland Poetry Slam Joyce Lee
The Stage West Palm Beach Jashua SaRa
Tourettes Without Regrets TBD
Urbana Jeanann Verlee
Vancouver PS TBD
Well Fed Head Slam Michelle Nimmo
Worcester Poets' Asylum Gary Hoare
WordPulp Lauren Zuniga
Writing Wrongs Poetry Slam TBD
These would have been in no matter what happened with the venue reps:
Ed Mabrey
Charles Hamilton
james dwyer
Omoizele Okoawo
Eric Alan
Nicole Homer
Brian Francis.
Natalie E. Illum
Michael Simms
Theresa Davis
William Evans
These get in because venue reps didn't fill all their spots. Since they only took 44 spots, there are an additional 16 spots for Storm poets.
Michael Kenny
Brian Yoo
Cynthia French
Colin Gilbert
Jen Rinaldi
Christian Drake
Dana Kuttler
Zack Graham
Lindsay Miller
Juliana Baldwin
IYEOKA IVIE OKOAWO
Jacob Victorine
Laura Swearingen-Steadwell
George David Miller
Samuel Jackson William Young Cook
Paulie Lipman
If you made application and are not on this list, you are on the waiting list. I will sort that list out asap. If you want off the waiting list and you want an immediate full refund, send an email to steve@poetryslam.com immediately. If you want to stay on the list and take a refund after the event, do nothing.
HERE IS THE IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: IF I HAVE MADE A MISTAKE ON THIS LIST, IT DOES NOT MEAN WE WILL INCLUDE MORE POETS IN THE EVENT. IT MEANS THOSE NEAR THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST ARE SUBJECT TO REMOVAL. I HOPE ALL OF THAT KIND OF SHUFFLING IS DONE IN 48 HOURS. AS OF TODAY, THIS IS THE OFFICIAL LIST. IT COULD CHANGE IF I'VE MADE MISTAKES AND THOSE IN THE BOTTOM 4-5 SLOTS SHOULD CROSS THEIR FINGERS AND HOLD THEIR BREATH.
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| IWPS List is up |
[11 Sep 2009|10:32am] |
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in the forums. Venue reps and storm poets. No wait list yet.
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| Worst. Hijackers. Ever. |
[09 Sep 2009|03:22pm] |
Um, if you are get on a plane from Cancun to Mexico City, and threaten the passengers and crew, you should probably demand something more valuable than diversion to Mexico City.
If you want to speak with the president once you get there, you should probably not start by letting all of the passengers deplane.
Then, you should avoid letting the Federales take you into custody.
I'm no professional hijacker, myself, but just sayin'.
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| Questions in poems |
[07 Sep 2009|11:07pm] |
With the sudden popularity of persona poems, I am also noticing an increase in the use of questions as a lazy device. Rhetorical questions are as old as time, and can be used very effectively, but I think they often fall apart when the questions are addressed to someone who isn't the audience. Often this is someone stated in a persona poem, other times, it is some unnamed "you" who the poet is addressing (or named, like father). The problem is that, instead of a device used to make the listener/reader think about the answer, you are giving information but putting it in a question for some reason that isn't always clear.
So, for example, I write a poem and the first line is "dad, were you thinking about demons when you used to beat me?" I am not asking the audience to contemplate the question itself, I am just using it to tell the audience that my dad beat me***. I see stuff like this in my earlier writing, and I think it is a common beginner mistake that people should work to move past.
A related device would be the "I wonder if..." statement, e.g, "Dad, I wonder if you thought about demons when you used to beat me". This is equally lazy in my opinion.
I think the fix would be something like just saying it: "My dad thought about demons when he used to beat me". However, this is harder, because in this case, "thought about demons" would be the piece of information on which the audience focuses. Therefore, you need to actually have an interesting image there, instead of just the shock of my dad beating me. This is obviously more challenging.
Maybe this makes no sense. Maybe I am becoming a curmudgeon. Give me some examples of questions done well.
***not a true statement. Also, had I thought of it earlier, I would have used "shake me as a baby" instead of "beat me", but I really don't feel like going back now and changing all of my examples.
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| WTF? |
[26 Aug 2009|08:50am] |
United just made my day by changing a flight reservation without charging me anything. Huh, wasn't expecting that. So, ORD to FRA on December 23rd, returning January 10, for $63 r/t.
Anybody else in Europe over Christmas/New Year's or have tips on what to do in Frankfurt?
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| Poems about drugs? |
[23 Aug 2009|05:47pm] |
I am working on a very specific assignment. Please help me find poems about drugs of any type, written by the greats, preferably.
Thanks!
ETA: This is probably too hard. If you have some famous song suggestions, those would work as well.
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| For those of you who feature... |
[18 Aug 2009|08:30am] |
Full recap on the way, but first, a question:
Do you get to the end of your set and feel like you've only been on stage for three minutes? I've been noticing this as I start to do more features..I get to the end of my set, and panic because I think I've missed a poem or two, or forgotten something, because I'm done already. I am certain I went around 16 minutes last night, because my watch said so, but it did not feel that long AT ALL.
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| De/Compositions |
[14 Aug 2009|08:34am] |
by Snodgrass. I think this was a ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sewoods recommendation. I second it. Get your hands on this book.
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| NPS Timing |
[13 Aug 2009|03:41pm] |
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How about we do rounds of 1, 2, 3, and 4 minutes? Maybe in the order 2-4-1-3?
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| Local Features |
[10 Aug 2009|01:07pm] |
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I am doing my first full Chicago feature next week, and I am really nervous. Anyone have tips on what works or doesn't work in front of your hometown crowd? Is it different, or am I just imagining that?
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