Books Reading Tonight
posted by on August 6 at 10:10 AM
Tonight we have a Poetry Slam. Here is Anis Mojgani at the 2006 Seattle Grand Slam:
“Rock out like you just got a book published.” There’s something in the voice of poetry slam poets—a kind of self-indulgent self-satisfaction—that just makes me want to run away screaming. The above three poems haven’t changed that opinion at all, especially the third one, which is painful.
There’s also a Young Writer’s Workshop Reading down at the Elliott Bay Book Company, in which young writers read the work they’ve produced in their summer workshops. If I had to pick, I would definitely choose this over the Poetry Slam, because I’ve worked in a bookstore during a youth reading and it was actually a lot of fun; the kids were nervous and everybody was very supportive.
Full readings calendar here.
Ouch!
There is nothing on earth that rocks out less than the phrase "rock out".
Except for fnarf.
Nice to see you can be a negative elitist about a poet and scene that is overwhelmingly positive and encouraging. Go back to writing about your ovaries, you talentless shit.
How nice to see that you can be a negative, condescending elitist about one a poet and a scene that are consistently positive and encouraging.
Go back to writing about your ovaries, you talentless shit.
How nice to see I only catch my verb-subject agreement failures after I click post.
Is the scene positive? Why is that a good thing? Why is it good to be positive about terrible, terrible writing and performing?
@3: which is why you do not hear me exhorting strangers, particularly poetry-loving strangers, to "rock out". It sounds stupid when I do that; it sounds stupid when this clown does it.
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