{"id":2173,"date":"2018-07-27T11:19:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2018-07-27T11:19:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:19:02","slug":"2173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/2018\/2173","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"l1\">SLAM! 2<\/p>\n<p class=\"l2\">Winnipeg Poetry Slam&mdash;Red River College &#8211; Roblin Centre<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyindent\">I attended the Slam last year, the first for The Fringe, and had a blast. That put this year&#8217;s slam as a target right in the center of my radar. For those who don&#8217;t know, a \u201cSlam\u201d is a \u201cperformance poetry competition using elimination by audience judges.\u201d Each poet recites two poems and five judges hold up scores after each performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyindent\">During last year&#8217;s Slam, I attended one of the first performances, which featured poets in the opening round. This year, I chose to attend a later performance of Slam 2, meaning that most of the poets have been eliminated and we dig into the semi-finals. That should put the best-of-the-best onto the stage\u2014and they don\u2019t disappoint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyindent\">For both of my attendances, I got to be a judge, which adds to the experience. If you want to be a judge, be sure to arrive early and find the host. So long as you have an appreciation for poetry and you\u2019re not biased to any competitor, you are eligible. As a judge, I juggled criteria in my mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How good is the delivery? Is there emotion? Does the recital run smoothly?<\/li>\n<li>How good is the poem? Is it too much like prose?  Does the topic have relevance?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"bodyindent\">Judging is not cut out for everyone but if you want to take it on, it\u2019s a lot of fun. If you don\u2019t want to judge, that\u2019s fine too\u2014just come and enjoy the show. These people are very talented and a pleasure to watch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyindent\">During halftime, they invite you to write and recite your own poem (voluntary of course).  This year\u2019s theme is limerick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyindent\">To enjoy these poems, you need not attune\u2014<br \/>\nC\u2019mon down, in the eve or afternoon!<br \/>\nWatch the poet and the ham<br \/>\nBattle it out in the Slam!<br \/>\nI had a great time!  Reviewed by Ray Yuen.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Ray Yuen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SLAM! 2 Winnipeg Poetry Slam&mdash;Red River College &#8211; Roblin Centre I attended the Slam last year, the first for The Fringe, and had a blast. That put this year&#8217;s slam as a target right in the center of my radar. For those who don&#8217;t know, a \u201cSlam\u201d is a \u201cperformance poetry competition using elimination by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[634],"tags":[730],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyrevue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}