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Rondall
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, November 17, 2003 - 10:28 pm: | 
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Check it out, check it out!!! I invited a very special guest to write a commentary on today's state of SLAM poetry. Regie Gibson of "Love Jones" fame and 1998 solo Slam Champion has written a great piece on his outlook on what slam is and what it is not becoming. I respect Regie as a poet. His genius is undeniable. That is why I am proud that Troy, the creator of the web site, has been so gracious in giving us a voice.
http://authors.aalbc.com/regiegibson.htm |
Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 01:57 pm: |
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Rondall:
This was a good article written by a brother who has grown and progressed.
However the world of so-called literary academic poetry has it's own versions of folks fakin the funk, cliches. poseurs, to wit:
1) The plad shirt wearing, wire glasses wearing, salt of the earth "sun shines out his arse" ecology and people loving philosopher
2) The Poor Man's Amiri Baraka
3) The 40 yr old and above "young poet"
4) The Sylvia Plath wannabe
5) The Long haired bearded loon
6) The Last of the Beatniks
7) The Last of the Hippies
8) The last of the Revolutionaries
9) The little colored white girl/boy
10) The spouter of stanziated prose
13) The person who became a poet to excuse being an obscure, inarticulate, recluse
14) The Dinosaur
15) The Man/Woman in Black with the eternal cigarette held European style and the black coffee
16) The Fount of All Truth and Knowledge
17) The Witchywomanearthmama
18) The Ezra Pound Apologist
19) The Any Time but Mine Guy (Modern Pindar, Sappho, Francois Villon, etc)
Slam has its own audience and performers and levels. Some consider it mere entry level work. But there are poets who never go beyond limericks and doggerel. Each to his own. Better that than pimping or slangin rocks.
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Rondall
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 05:11 pm: |
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Chris,
I am personally proud to be the "Poetry Pimp". I agree with you all the way. There are posers out there, and "we" have to step up to expose them for what they are. |
Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 10:40 am: |
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Rondall:
I have several akas, two of which are Uncle Chris and OG Harlem Taproom Moe. |
Beautifulwaterstar
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 07:31 pm: |
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ahahaha Oh my word, that list is pretty funny! ahahahaha Hey I just so happened to like The Bell Jar though (Plath) haha And how you mean better than pimpin', Chris? U know how most pimp in 'da name of Revolution via poetry. lol I feel like writing something. :=) |
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