Poetry Slam

Yesterday, I accompanied a friend to Dallas. While there, we went to the Crow Collection of Asian Art, which was fabulous, sampled the food of PF Changs, which was delicious, and attended, and judged, a slam poetry competition.

Amazing! I love it! Now, I've always loved spoken word, which is what these competitions are, but I've never seen it live. There were four rounds and five judges. They dropped the two lowest scoring poets after the second round and the next lowest scoring poet after the third round.

But enough about the rules. The poets were excellent!

The list of poets were...

Shellz (who won)
Candy
The Poet Drama
Rob J
Militant X
Namdee (I really don't know how to spell his name...)
Rock Baby
Twain

There were two "sacrificial" poets who performed at the very beginning, but unfortunately I can't remember their names. The first of the "sacrificial" poets was hilarious! His poem was about what you can write about as a poet, and it was hilarious. The next poet was the only white performer that night, and his poem was about the Confederate Flag that is allowed to hang above some states. It was very good.

After the first two rounds, MilitantX and Rob J were dropped. It was very sad, because I thought Rob J was one of the best of the first rounds and I didn't get to see more of him. MilitantX was the weakest of the poets last night...

Shellz was excellent. An amazing performer. Her first two poems were about Suicide and Cutting respectively. I can't remember her third one, and I can only grasp fragments of her fourth, but she consistently performed spectacularly.

Candy was excellent too. She had a poem about the 80s that I gave a 10 (my first ten of the night).

Twain had a really amazing performace with his poem about rap in the present. He also gave a poem about who I believe was his friend who wanted to reach out to her heroin-addicted husband. Very moving.

Namdee was kicked out at the start of the third round, but he an excellent poem about "Black."


But anyways, that was my last night. Pretty awesome.