Poetry Slam Edit Meaning

1.

It's like a rap battle, but without the black people.

"You want to come with me to a poetry slam?"

"I'm sorry, but I don't collect Pokemon."

See rap battle, slam poetry, poetry, hipsters, rap

2.

An increasing phenomenon in bars and cafes across the western world, where poor poets strut and fret about an open mic stage and spout doggerel about police brutality, their ex-girlfriends' mothers or the last time they got stoned. All in the same poem.

The point of a poetry slam is to shout your drivel louder than the previous contestant, while whooping your friends into a brain-dead ecstacy by throwing in staccato clusters of meaningless interior rhymes without discretion or respect to form reflecting thematic content. You must also recite your work breathlessly, hunched over your microphone and clutching your tofu-addled guts.

Invariably, poetry slams are populated by idiots and poems are full of sound and fury, signifying something only if you are part of the poetry slam clique.

"My girlfriend's mother, she's a bit of all right/Apart from her love for the fascist Right/I got stoned with her and I said, hey mother-babe/Wanna take a ride in my astrolabe/She fetched me a punch upside me chops/and said "Young man, I shall call the cops"/and they arrived and said hey you're that twat from the Poetry Slam and they hit me man and it was really heavy and like I had to eat non-organic baked beans in the cell with a papier mache fork taken from a page of the Daily Mail and had to wipe my backside with a copy of Young Conservatives' Conference Special 1987 - William Hague Edition. Wow, bummer."

See poetry, slam, performance, open, mic

3.

1: gangbang.

2: gangbang

3: gangbang

4: just trying to meet the word requirement.

"What's a 'Poetry Slam'?"

"I dunno... gangbang?"

See Eid

4.

Shit poetry by illiterate hipsters. Everyone gets on stage and yells at you about Social Injustice.

My friend forced me to go a poetry slam. I had not before then seen such a high concentration of pretentious assholes gathered for the purpose of stoking one another's egos.

See slam, slam poetry, spoken word, poetry, hipsters

5.

A spoken poetry competition. The way you read your writing puts emphasis on its meaning. Uses a bit of theatrics.

I won a poetry slam with my latest writing

See poems, poetry, poet, writing

6.

An event that takes place during school hours in which fat black women tell you how they don't want to be treated as objects, people tell their girlfriends how lustful they are, minorities telling you how they don't want to be judged, and politics by the boatload. All of these things will eventually consume not only your class time, but they will also eat into your lunch time, to the point where you have just enough time to buy food from the vending machine, and eat it on the way to your next class.

Person 1: dude, the Poetry Slam is tomorrow.

Person 2: well I better pack a lunch and some earplugs.

or

Man, that guest speaker is taking so long, its practically a Poetry Slam

See poetry slam, bad poetry, poetry, forever

7.

The act of writing poetry within a set time limit on a randomly selected subject, often as a competition.

Let's have us a poetry slam tonight!

See poetry, spontaneous, fun, drinking, laughter