They Like Me! They Really, Really Like Me!
This is Pip, who emceed the last poetry slam of the season, apparently gesticulating too quickly for my camera phone to capture.
Okay, the really bizarre news is that I'm on the team! If you had told me a year ago that I was going to be on a team going to National Poetry Slam 2007, I would have said you were insane. Considering I had never participated in a slam before, it seemed very unlikely. And yet, I go to a poetry slam in little Northwest New Mexico just to try it, and I make it into the finals. I go to the finals, and now I'm on the team going to National. Just like that.
It will be in August in Austin, Texas. I'll post more when I get the details.
These are the poems I read tonight:
Also, I came prepared with a new haiku tonight. They had said that in the event of a tie, there would be a haiku death-match. There wasn't a tie, so I didn't get to use it, but I wanted to. I've been having dreams about zombies a lot lately. I'm not sure why, but I have been. Here's my zombified haiku:
Scrambling from fresh graves,
Zombies go in search of brains.
Hell if they get mine!
[Edit: A picture of me reading from Strix's Flickr page:]
Comments
It would have been sweet if you could have used the haiku... Freakin sweet!