Slam Poetry

What is Slam Poetry?


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The poetry that thrives in a culture of non-readers. Very sincere, bad poetry. Delivered in front of and given encouragement from a small group of people who are also bad poets. Slam poets think that their poetry is more powerful if they just yell it. Sincerely painful to listen to. It's bad poetry. They try very hard, but they have no idea what they're doing.

Most slam poetry could be better classified as motivational speaking or stand-up comedy.

See slam poetry, spoken word, poetry, illiteracy, slam


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