the poets duct tape
In Slam poetry everyone is supposed to chart out a territory and make it there place to exist. No one can get spiritual like Saul Williams, not many people do the whole funny yet touching thing as well as Big Poppa E and Nick Fox is so sharp he is a Ginsu knife of a poet.
On October 6th one of the most important slam poets in the world will be at the North Star Cafe featuring and its got me thinking. He is a world champion of poetry and has won on every slam stage he has graced. If your wondering what he looks like picture Ed Harris and then mush him together with Yul Brynner and you have Buddy Wakefield.
This show is important because I might get to meet Buddy and he is the singular most important influence on my time here with slam. I remember seeing him open for Sage Francis in Portland and quiet an obnoxious crowd quite easily. I bought his CD and brought it over Wil's house and we were struck by each word by every delivery. Wil has every season of Def Poetry Jam and we would watch buddy again and again while we both tried to convince ourselves we could be like that someday.
When we ran a writers group we would take people who were new to genre of Slam Poetry and I would force them to sit and listen to Buddy whether it was his conveniance stores piece or my town it didn't matter. The point was not to have them sit down and listen to a poet who does this right or that right it was SIT DOWN AND LISTEN BECAUSE THIS GUY DOES EVERYTHING RIGHT. He can apply his skill and wit to any subject and it will come out beautiful he can make the political personal as is so often harped on in Slam.
Every single person got it once they heard him. I just hope everyone there on October sixth knows how big of a deal this is, how much more talented then your favorite poet Buddy Wakefield really is. Go to Buddywakefield.com to look at funny pictures of Buddy and say to yourself how much like Yul Brynner he actually resembles visually.
On October 6th one of the most important slam poets in the world will be at the North Star Cafe featuring and its got me thinking. He is a world champion of poetry and has won on every slam stage he has graced. If your wondering what he looks like picture Ed Harris and then mush him together with Yul Brynner and you have Buddy Wakefield.
This show is important because I might get to meet Buddy and he is the singular most important influence on my time here with slam. I remember seeing him open for Sage Francis in Portland and quiet an obnoxious crowd quite easily. I bought his CD and brought it over Wil's house and we were struck by each word by every delivery. Wil has every season of Def Poetry Jam and we would watch buddy again and again while we both tried to convince ourselves we could be like that someday.
When we ran a writers group we would take people who were new to genre of Slam Poetry and I would force them to sit and listen to Buddy whether it was his conveniance stores piece or my town it didn't matter. The point was not to have them sit down and listen to a poet who does this right or that right it was SIT DOWN AND LISTEN BECAUSE THIS GUY DOES EVERYTHING RIGHT. He can apply his skill and wit to any subject and it will come out beautiful he can make the political personal as is so often harped on in Slam.
Every single person got it once they heard him. I just hope everyone there on October sixth knows how big of a deal this is, how much more talented then your favorite poet Buddy Wakefield really is. Go to Buddywakefield.com to look at funny pictures of Buddy and say to yourself how much like Yul Brynner he actually resembles visually.
posted by veritas2 at
6:29 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home