SLAM Poetry.

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SLAM! Poetry.

• Rikki-Rachelle Hinz
• and
• Trevor Foster

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What?

• slam poetry A term that describes any spoken word
  poetry composed and rehearsed for presentation in
  front of a live audience and quite often in a
  competitive arena.
• slam (n) (1) A term that describes a type of
  performance poetry show that usually culminates
  in a poetic competition. (2) A performance poetry
  competition.
• slam (v) To perform a poem in front of a live
  audience and quite often in a competitive arena.

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Who? When? Where?
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The Get Me High Lounge in Chicago
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Marc Smith

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How?

• Using

• Sounds
• Structure
• Figurative language

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Sounds

• Lets Talk About Sound
• Tone
• Style
• Mood

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Examples

• My love for you is like a rose
• One thats dead and never grows

Kind, intelligent, loving and hotThis describes
everything you're not
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Suheir Hammad
Excerpt from What I Will I will not dance
to your war drum. I will not lend my soul nor my
bones to your war drum. I will not dance to your
beating. I know that beat. It is lifeless. I
know intimately that skin you are hitting. It was
alive once hunted stolen stretched. I will not
dance to your drummed up war.
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Dave Chappelle

• Excerpt from How I Got the Lead on Jeopardy
• The score is 200 were all tied neck and neck
• and its my turn to address Alex Trebec.
• I close my eyes and I thank the lord.
• Finally my category is on the board.
• Ill take fed up things white people did for a
  1000 Alex.
• A bell went off, this could mean trouble,
• todays question my friends is the daily double

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Fin