Slog - Comments on Reading Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130 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... Copyright 2008 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:10:35 -0800 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:03:06 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Horace Walpole Ouch!

]]> Horace Walpole http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1093991 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1093991 Books Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:45:57 -0800 Comment by Fnarf There is nothing on earth that rocks out less than the phrase "rock out".

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094017 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094017 Books Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:07:56 -0800 Comment by jean enersen strikes back! Except for fnarf.

]]> jean enersen strikes back! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094391 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094391 Books Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:09:12 -0800 Comment by Nick 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.

]]> Nick http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094413 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094413 Books Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:36:35 -0800 Comment by Nick 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.

]]> Nick http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094416 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094416 Books Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:37:45 -0800 Comment by Nick How nice to see I only catch my verb-subject agreement failures after I click post.

]]> Nick http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094419 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094419 Books Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:38:55 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Is the scene positive? Why is that a good thing? Why is it good to be positive about terrible, terrible writing and performing?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094431 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094431 Books Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:49:01 -0800 Comment by Fnarf @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.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094441 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/reading_tonight_130#c1094441 Books Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:03:06 -0800