Hee-larious link (if you're into this kind of thing):
Beat Box in the Kitchen
Quotes about Poets:
"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."
- Robert Heinlein
"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."
- H.L. Mencken
Oh yeah? Wanna make somethin' out of that, Bob and H.L.? Meet me behind the Coffeehouse, midnight, Saturday after the slam. I'll be there with my boys and girls.
Ahead of its time and still reverberating in my head after decades.... "It's good news week" by Hedgehoppers Anonymous (The video footage is mostly modern but the song's early sixties)
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Here to hear Salt City Slam's appearance on KSL Radio's Nightside Project
Salt City Slam is an affiliate of the Utah Arts Alliance or check 'em out at Derek Dyer's Page
And now... ...Here's so much more about mememememe...
Jim Keller here -- a performance poet, a photog, unheralded prophet, a player, a pawn in the game -- and 'atchyer service but for not for yer servicing. a/k/a Word Wrangler, Ice Cowboy (a story for another day), the Dirt Baron (ditto), Maynard G, Rip Van Jim and widely known to be diagnosed with multiple personality disorder.
A poet anyway..... ...a slammer at that...
...a damn fine idiosyncratic fellow who cleans up fairly well on a good day. Identified as karmically ancient by some who should know, and while inhabiting a crinkling carapace, formed and yet forming from clay that refuses to set.
Member, Salt City Slam Team 2006 and volunteer staffer at the '07 Poetry Slam Nationals).
There's more poems by we and many national slammers in my top friends below).
...And speaking of slam, Austin's hosting of the 2007 Poetry Slam Nationals.... ...well, they were fantastic, inspiring, cheesy, funny, moving, enormous, exhausting, entertaining, irritating, palpitating, everything else you can expect from slam...
Just wish y'awl coulda' been there....
Check out the website for more information: Poetry Slam Nationals .
And see video slamcasts at Pod Slam.org (yes, Virginia, there are friends in this world NOT on MySpace. Like Omigod, fer shure, get a handle, homies!!)
