>"A poetry SLAM competition in two rounds.
First Round: 4 Competing Categories:
DARK poem - a sad poem wearing all black
GLAD poem - a happy poem in colourful clothes
SHAG poem - sexy words in lingerie, fetish, flesh
DRAG poem - gender-bending words in drag"< etc
Probably a bit of fun but sooooo cliched it makes you cry. Why is it
that all this performance stuff is so predictable and conventional and
does everything to reinforce stereotypes (aesthetic and otherwise)?
The whole thing goes against the grain of challenge and questioning,
weather of genre, language or identity, that innovative and
experimental poetry are known for. This is why the performance scene,
despite all its rhetoric about being about youth and energy etc, is
ultimately so conservative and harmless and safe, and hence why it is
so acceptable to the literary establishment.
Tim A.
excuse cross posting - by which I mean cross posting, not cross posting
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