What is /lit's/ view on Slam Poetry

is it pure garbage 100 percent of the time

or only 98 percent of the time?

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garbage

Absolute garbage

Complete garbage

Lots of garbage, but I've seen some fantastic pieces as well. A lot of the times it seems the oratory skills of the speaker are more important than their skills in writing verse.

>current year
>attending poetry slam
How bad is your home life, Op?
On base housing got you down?
How did you afford the cover charge?
Was it amateur Wednesdays with the acoustic guitar types?

worthless trash for complete morons

Shitposting here is a better use of your time.

The only worthwhile artistic medium of the 21st century

cringey, finger-snapping schlock

freestyling for middle class whities whose biggest problem is someone forgot to call them xir a week ago

anyone who performs it gets a helicopter ride

Decades ago, at Budweiser, before they were bought by InBev, they had a general rule--never change the packaging to try and get more sales. Changing the packaging is a gimmick. If you can't sell the beer, than selling a new package will only make things worse in the long run, while hiding the problem in the short run. Most slam poetry is bad poetry with a shiny package. The basic idea is that if I yell loud enough, people will listen. If I'm crude enough, my words will become insightful. Obviously there is nothing about crude language or yelling that precludes good poetry, but if you start with those points, I have to wonder, where does the poetry come into it?

it's more like jazz, a competition for creating verbal forms rather than meaning, than proper literature.

why are americans always obsessed with selling things

the problem is that they usually try to be funny but rarely are. And the speak all to poetic most of the time. The format itself is cool though.

white amerikkka is a culture of used cars salesmen

The vast majority is a waste of time. But I'll post one example I think is good. youtube.com/watch?v=vnKZ4pdSU-s

>anxious and weak people have difficulty speaking in front of crowds
>therefore slam poetry is good art

What?

Way to put words in his mouth. There's something respectable about public speaking, that's all. Not saying anything about the quality of the work.

thank you.

please don't insult rap.

please don't insult jazz.

please don't insult leftists and minorities by associating them with slam poetry.

Some are good

I used to watch def jam poetry
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Slam poetry nights are a great way to pick up sexually frustrated women if you're not an ugly manlet or a complete fucking sperg. Pick one of the less shrill performers and after their asinine little address, go and congratulate them on their "bravery" and "lyricism". Be charming and self-effacing in a shy sort of way and they'll lap it up. In my experience mentioning Rupi Kaur seems to work like magic. Ultimately a lot of them have blindingly obvious insecurities and hate themselves at least much as you do. Use it to your advantage.

This is only positive thing that slam poetry has ever contributed to society.

hehe what more do they have to sell though, selling selling isn't enough

what if i insult you personally ;)

would you still love me oh would you still

>what's the deal with slam poetry? It doesn't slam, and it damn sure isn't poetry. It's more like prose that whimpers. They should call it whimpering prose!

I've never heard any but this thread has convinced me that I love it.

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I go to open mics and slam events to play with my wannabe-bohemian uni jazz band. I'm so stereotypical it's pathetic. Never, during the year and a half that I've been going to these things and been a part of this community, not even on a uni campus with a highly-respected English and Creative Writing department, have I ever heard a "poem" that wasn't dogshit.
>please don't insult leftists and minorities by associating them with slam poetry.
I wish literally anyone else did slam poetry, just for the novelty of the thing. I've heard so many pathos-filled rants on the struggles of being a black person who talks like a white (read educated) person in le drumpfs america that I want to shoot myself. I don't know if it gets better anywhere else but I can't endorse slam poetry as anything other than masturbatory garbage.

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I'd say about 99% of the time it sucks

it's fun to go to open mics and just shit out whatever you want to then just leave, everyone clicking their fingers unsure of what bad slam poetry is.

Rap for whitebreads

there's a moment of silence
before I begin, where I stand still
and I let my presence sink in
the tension gets heavy
like unstained spaghetti
they know they're not ready
but brother they best be
cause out of the box like jack
I come sprung, lashing their
backs with dirty slam tongue

I start it off slow, with a powerful word,
like Existence or Freedom or Slavery
or Bird, each syllable then I'll say again
so the depth of the thought I've put in it
sinks in, I'm blowing their minds with
this syllabic twist, they've never heard
poetry laid down like this

and then I start in as fast as a sonic
beating up verse like it's Dr. Robotnik,
then I pause really quick and I look
in the distance, like I forgot what it was
I was doing a minute, or like I'm thinking
real deeply about something related but
it's too powerful and it must be left unstated,
then I pick it back up as fast before only
now I get mad and start stomping the floor
I chop up the air with my verbal karate
and say fuck and shit like my mouth was
a potty.

out of breath at the end I breathe in the mic
sounding like what a wind storm sounds like,
it's like a metaphor cause their minds have been blown,
by a dank hit of slam taken straight to the dome.

that's gay as fuck
why is everything so dramatic