This past weekend I had the chance to attend a slam poetry session hosted by The Saturday Night Slam Series at BYU. About once a month people gather from all around to share their poetry, support local poets, or simply happen to walk into the wall restaurant on a day when its packed wall to wall with poetry lovers and choose to stay and listen. I honestly was not expecting a whole lot from the evening and was surprised to see so many people in attendance, and they were not your typical quite audience either. It was fairly clear that slam poetry was a very exciting and energetic event just from how many cheers and whoops and shouting was coming from the audience when I walked in.
The quality of the poetry that I heard was actually really good I had no idea there were such talented people here. The energy of the crowd was nothing in comparison to the energy of some of the presenters either, I have never seen such enthusiasm before in a person reading poetry. It really reinforced the concept that poetry is meant to be read aloud, and being read by the author is even better because they know better than anyone what the emotion behind this poem is. It was really well done and I had a good time defiantly would recommend to a friend.
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