poet jumps in

Power outage: the band couldn’t play, no laser light show. Then a poet jumped up onto the stage and enthralled all within the circle of how far a human voice can carry.

place or prop

For Wallace Stevens place names were just props in the staging of the poem; they’re not real places.

edgy performance

He was so avant-garde he went straight to the edge of the proscenium and fell off the stage into the crowd.

page and stage

The perfect combination of page poet and stage poet.


[National Poetry Slam this week in St. Paul.]