Would this be appropriate for your board?

[Inquartata]

Ahhhhhh, but you obviously have the soul of a foilist!

I have it on reliable information that foilists have no souls...

[Inquartata]

... inq... *just pretends to ignore you*

You wouldn't believe how much of that I get.

Or maybe you would...

[FoilyGeezer]

no.

really really no.

try reading my poetry, then decide.... http://openthemics.com/?rm=gallery&nav=4&col=9&id=15

... inq... *just pretends to ignore you*

Not bad stuff. Very direct. In your intro you thanked Jack McCarthy... not many people know who Jack is. Seeing him perform in Portland one night after we'd finished our round early...or seeing him do the poem to his daughter on hawks during a feature we did together...man, that guy never fails to get to me.

Stick with writing. It's cheaper than therapy.

[FoilyGeezer]

I have it on reliable information that foilists have no souls...

We do too! We keep them in the same place as the Iraqi WMDs!!!!

[Peach]

Me sabre fencer, me no ken poetry....

Hey, speak for yourself! Some of us sabre fencers read it, write it, and teach it . . .

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Not bad stuff. Very direct. In your intro you thanked Jack McCarthy... not many people know who Jack is. Seeing him perform in Portland one night after we'd finished our round early...or seeing him do the poem to his daughter on hawks during a feature we did together...man, that guy never fails to get to me.

Stick with writing. It's cheaper than therapy.

Jack did a couple poems at a feature at my school a couple years back, one of his poems inspired me to write... a year and a half later, he was congratulating me after my feature in cambridge.... crazy stuff....

"very direct" ----- have i mentioned that i'm a sabrist????

[KShan5[PrFC]]

Hey, speak for yourself! Some of us sabre fencers read it, write it, and teach it . . .

That's unfortunate. My condolences.

[FoilyGeezer]

Jack did a couple poems at a feature at my school a couple years back, one of his poems inspired me to write... a year and a half later, he was congratulating me after my feature in cambridge.... crazy stuff....

Where did you feature, at the Cantab? Great room. I was on the CT team for a few years back in the 90's and coached the 97 team. Jack was on the Boston team when I first saw him. He really has opened the doors for a lot of other writers. He has an incredible talent for being able to use both humor and pathos in the same piece. We've been fans of each others work for a long time. I still try and catch his features on the occasions that he's down in this area....those were good times!

[KShan5[PrFC]]

Wait, so there are poetry teams????

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Where did you feature, at the Cantab? Great room. I was on the CT team for a few years back in the 90's and coached the 97 team. Jack was on the Boston team when I first saw him. He really has opened the doors for a lot of other writers. He has an incredible talent for being able to use both humor and pathos in the same piece. We've been fans of each others work for a long time. I still try and catch his features on the occasions that he's down in this area....those were good times!

yes, it was the Cantab.

Bernard Dolan (won the Providence slam two years in a row, know him?) formed a team of girls from all over Rhode Island, and we had a feature at the cantab and at as220(ri's poetry slam venue).... a bit later there was "she tour"-- which i'd like to make very clear that i'm not affiliated with.... *shudders*

anyway, it was a lot of fun.

yes, kev, there are teams. in fact, there's nationals. which i could have gone to last year as the alternate alternate (after not really bothering to go to any of the qualifying events.....)

poetry slam is an entire world of it's own.... a world i can only spend so much time in before it drives me insane....

[gojujay]

a bit later there was "she tour"-- which i'd like to make very clear that i'm not affiliated with.... *shudders*

Why is it that girls make fun of guys who have that same reaction in reverse?

[FoilyGeezer]

poetry slam is an entire world of it's own.... a world i can only spend so much time in before it drives me insane....

Yeah, I think everyone reaches that point with it. I know I did after the 97 Nationals. I stopped slamming pretty much and just did features after that...and then only for another couple years. There was a particular trend toward "My life sucks and it's your fault" pity me poems that just annoyed the heck out of me. The travel was good though, and I met some good folks (and some really scary folks too).

Is Eve Stern still around? Nice lady...good poet.

[Inquartata]

Wait, so there are poetry teams????

Yes, they're called hip hop "bands"...

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Never met Eve Stern--- but, that doesn't mean all that much.

"she tour" was a bunch of girls-- some were just bad poets, some were often very good, and brought out the very very very bad in each other..... their feature was the worst feature i've ever seen in my life.

"girl's team" was better. i mean, even if i was significantly worse than everyone in she tour (which... i'm not), i liked the poets and specific poems of girl's team much better.

nothing to do with gender, or anything else..... i just don't want to be associated with poets of that badness.....

actually, most poetry teams only involve one or two people who have hip-hop roots.... the senior team has two- Manic Expressive (aka Jared Paul) and Sage Francis.

Sage is freaking awesome-- (first hip hop artist to be signed to epitaph records, which is a punk album primarily.... he does some awesome stuff).

[The0ne]

I feel very uncultured right now. . .

[MyrddinsPrecint]

poetry slam is its own culture...

kind of like the Heaven's Gate Cult was it's own culture......

[gojujay]

I went to school with somebody who is doing that circuit, his name is Eric Ott, but he has a stage name, Big Poppa or something like that. A friend of mine found a link to him. Haven't seen him in years.