Knocking Off the Slam Dust

[scottwoods]

Last night I slammed at the Writers' Block show for the first time in about a year. Competitively, I mean, not like a haiku deathmatch or something equally devoid of the ballast of reward. It felt good, though what's not changed is the pressure writing. I wrote both pieces I performed last night, uh, last night

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[nerak_g]

SO TRUE~it is the poets who get like melba, not the thing itself. :-D

I think some of my best pieces are pressure pieces.It's very typical of me to write something around 3.30-4.00 on the day of Cliterati,
sometimes for the slam.Three of my highest scoring pieces were written long hand & slammed that way (now, G-d knows where those pieces are?) There is something about the furious pressure. It's why procrastination works for some people (it did me until I had to write 30 pages & realized that sucked).

Wanted to note that Kelly had a courier route through Atlanta last night & we met downtown for a bit.I told her that this is how it works as a traveling poet, too~we're all connected.She can ask me where poetry is on a route. There was music at the place we met last night, but the owner said "you can get up there if you want." She didn't, we were having too much fun talking.Anyway, good times~a little connection to Columbus family.
:-D

[radioactiveart]

I think that whole "slam doesn't get stale...poets get stale" is a huge generalization, and not universally true.