A Quick Briefing! The U-Club Poetry slam provides a bi-weekly venue for open mic (come one and come all), featured performance poets from across the country, and, as the name suggests, a poetry slam. Briefly: A poetry slam is a performance poetry competition where ten poets are given three minutes to read their own creation to an audience of millions and a crowd of five (randomly-selected) judges who, with the aid of their score cards, will determine the top poet of the evening. There can be no musical accompaniment (sorry, all you MCs, this is a capella), and no props (if you are reading a poem about peace and carrying a big peace sign we will probably get the point, but you will not get the points). U.N.I.T.Y-- OK, it may be a cheesy Queen Latifah song, but let's be real for a second. All of us here and you there are coming together every other Thursday for something we like to think of as a community. The poetry slam may be about a competition and all of that jazz, but, really now, what makes this thing something special for all of us is that we can come together and share not only our time but also our emotions with each other. The poetry slam, to us, is something that can for a community on this campus that you don't see every day. Come to the slams, meet people, drink some coffee, hear poetry, share yourself with people you don't know, introduce yourselves to us--most of all, have fun. We don't do this for just us, or cause we want to hear our own voices, we do this cause we want to meet you. Some Final Notes Poets-- do your thing. Don't
be afraid, just get up there and
let us all know what you are thinking. |
