Poetry slam detroit 2011

You are just getting started. In the tradition of Slam, both teams are offered the chance to engage in a tiebreaker. One poet from each team will go onstage. Either that or you can call it a draw. You all say go for it. Only one New York team member wishes for it. The issue is deadened, and a tie is called.

You are co-champions, but the rumblings throughout the theater favor you. You come home and tell everyone who made it possible. You tell them that Aurora and Vivee set the literary standard. You tell them that Khary redefined performance.

You tell them that Scott instilled discipline and Ella gave you consistency. You lift up the names of others — Pouncy, McCree, West. And we are grateful, and more than happy to have you in our company. But this is your title, and we thank you for finally making the country take notice that Detroit does not write in ink.

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Clair Shores Greater St. Metro Times P. Blair was an openly queer socialist poet and musician, frequently called upon to perform in Europe, South Africa and Asia. He was also a great teacher and those things are related. Your fenced in gardens filled with sustenance and Saturday. The September stench that creeps slow as a Woodward bus on Sunday. Black tires crawling in summer heat. Your acoustic guitars and amplified hair. Blair celebrates the ghetto without illusion.

He had a hard love that fit the city. It could be seen as paradoxical that the best poem about the city was written by an import.