Steamboat’s Johnny Spillane (who took classes from CMC) won a silver for USA in the Nordic Combined. This is a new accomplishment for the USA in an event that Europeans have owned for a long time: http://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/2010/feb/14/silver-spillane-lodwick-fourth/
Other poetry is also on my mind: Here’s a performance from the Olympics opening ceremonies from Canadian Slam/ Spoken Word Poet Shane Koyczn:
What is a poetry slam? What makes that rhythm of Spoken Word and Slam Poetry?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_slam
Well, some deliveries style after hip-hop, and some from prose poems, according to the entries above.
However, they would still have some commonalities to other types of poetic traditions—and the Kennedy Center provides some exercises to have students compare elements of hip-hop to say, even Shakespeare:
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3656/
This poem uses repetition for rhythm and many metaphors in these lines:
“Let the page be your doctor…”
CMC Upcoming Poetry Events
Poetry Slam at Summit on March 17th
Second Life Poetry Celebration at ColoradoEduIisland in mid April. (More to come)
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