In my continuing campaign for quantity posting rather than, well, non-quantity posting, tonight I put to you an item I would welcome your learned guidance on:
I am attending my first poetry slam competition on Friday night. I can't wait! There's nothing I like better than a roomful of highly animated poets.
So my questions for you are:
* Are there special audience rules for poetry slams?
* Can you heckle? If so, must it be in blank verse, say, or can it tend more towards the bawdy limerick?
* Does anyone do 'serious' poems at poetry slam nights? And if so, do they always go down like lead balloons?
* And finally, what does the winner of a poetry slam competition win, in addition to global public adoration, millions of dollars and a (hybrid) sports car?
I went to my first theatre sports night last weekend and mercy! I wish I'd thought to prepare for that before the show.
Poetically Challenged, Sydney.
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