November 3rd, 2009 / 7:26 pm
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Spoken Word at the White House!!

to read about this evening and to see video performances click here

and who says poetry is dead!!??

26 Comments

  1. daniel bailey—

      fuck that.

  2. daniel bailey—

      fuck that.

  3. Rauan Klassnik—

      amen… fuck that hard,….

  4. Rauan Klassnik—

      amen… fuck that hard,….

  5. thomas p levy—

      this is the end of the world

  6. thomas p levy—

      this is the end of the world

  7. reynard—

      is she doing sign language

  8. reynard—

      is she doing sign language

  9. Blake Butler—

      is kumulipo like an x-rated play on the oulipo? that girl perverted.

  10. Blake Butler—

      is kumulipo like an x-rated play on the oulipo? that girl perverted.

  11. Gian—

      She seems to be having trouble breathing. Someone get her some air. By air, I mean, a fart.

  12. Gian—

      She seems to be having trouble breathing. Someone get her some air. By air, I mean, a fart.

  13. Adam Robinson—

      I thought it was okay. I like when she referred to Stanford as innovative, the city of Macintosh. You normally only see that sort of thing in flarf.

      I think I would have a lot of trouble breathing if I was reading for wh.gov, too.

  14. Adam Robinson—

      I thought it was okay. I like when she referred to Stanford as innovative, the city of Macintosh. You normally only see that sort of thing in flarf.

      I think I would have a lot of trouble breathing if I was reading for wh.gov, too.

  15. jon—

      it’s about 10 years post relevance, but nice that some performance-based verbal thing is happening at the white house, outside of all the various easy jokes i could make here.

      And it’s not the worst thing ever, and she’s a young slam poet (not very good).

      to be honest, i’m genuinely happy when poetry shows up anywhere outside of the academy or writer’s circles, even if it’s not that great. so boo bad slam girl or whatever, but hooray that some kind of poetry is seeping into the head of the nation or something.

  16. jon—

      it’s about 10 years post relevance, but nice that some performance-based verbal thing is happening at the white house, outside of all the various easy jokes i could make here.

      And it’s not the worst thing ever, and she’s a young slam poet (not very good).

      to be honest, i’m genuinely happy when poetry shows up anywhere outside of the academy or writer’s circles, even if it’s not that great. so boo bad slam girl or whatever, but hooray that some kind of poetry is seeping into the head of the nation or something.

  17. Lily—

      words like “soul” and “god” should be stricken from the vocabulary of all people wanting to call themselves “Poets”

  18. Lily—

      words like “soul” and “god” should be stricken from the vocabulary of all people wanting to call themselves “Poets”

  19. Rauan Klassnik—

      after the end !!

  20. Rauan Klassnik—

      after the end !!

  21. jereme—

      this would have been funnier if delivered by a white dude.

  22. jereme—

      this would have been funnier if delivered by a white dude.

  23. daniel bailey—

      lol. that was lol was for fucking real. i want to record a white dude reading this now.

  24. daniel bailey—

      lol. that was lol was for fucking real. i want to record a white dude reading this now.

  25. daniel bailey—

      i don’t think she had trouble breathing. i just thought she wanted to seem on the verge of tears or something. to give credence to the conceit of her shitty-ass poem.

  26. daniel bailey—

      i don’t think she had trouble breathing. i just thought she wanted to seem on the verge of tears or something. to give credence to the conceit of her shitty-ass poem.