As any good father does, I worry about slam. Its growing success seems to threaten the eccentric nature of the art. More and more young poets copy the chops of someone they heard on a CD or saw on TV. They don’t draw from their own experiences. They don’t trust their own voices.
Marc “So What” Smith, Father of Slam Poetry (via kimdavalos)
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