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Storytelling — "Around the World in Eighty Minutes," told by Priscilla Howe, 8 p.m. tomorrow at The Lawrence Arts Center, 200 W Ninth St.
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2 p.m. Tuesday in the rotunda at Strong Hall. Mardi Gras Celebration, Saturday-Tuesday at International Beadtrader, 1017 1/2 Massachusetts St.
CELEBRATIONS Susan B. Anthony Birthday Celebration,
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Habitat For Humanity "Homefest '94" Benefit, 7:30 p.m. Friday at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. $10 donation.
Douglas County AIDS Project Benefit Concert. 9 p.m. Saturday at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. $7.50 donation.
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'Poetry Slam' night encourages self-expression
By Laney Sailsbury Associated Press Writer
NEWYORK—Alone in the limelight of this smoky basement pub, only talent could save a would-be poet's pride. Last night was "poetry slam" night, and the jackals were out.
Judge Johnnie Heavyside was sitting atop the upright piano with a collection of cardboard number cards. He held up a three for Ron Kolm, a veteran of the twice-weekly event.
When the poet walked off the stage at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, some in the crowd clapped in appreciation. Others booed the Heavyside's call.
Poetry slam emcee Bob Holman held the microphone, did a half-spin and said, "You know, I kind of like that."
But the Heavyside and three other judges stood firm, and another poet tiptoed on stage for a chance to be appreciated and win the $10 prize.
The audience, Manhattan's too-cool artistic set, many with horn-rimmed glasses and black stretch pants, prepared to judge the next one.
Anyone could have been next.
Throughout the United States, hundreds of poets — self-taught and lettered — are making their way into the growing poetry nightlife while poetry has a renaissance of sorts among ordinary people.
On New York's Lower Eastside, a creative workshop was held. Six people sat in a circle critiquing one another's poems, oblivious to a sheeled hobo who had been snoring in the corner.
A world away, beneath the towering stone arches of St. John the Divine, more than 1,000 people gathered to hear the greatest laureates of the day — Rita Dove, Poet Laureate of the United States; Joseph Brodsky, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature; and Octavio Paz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.
There were at least 20 other places to hear poetry in New York that night, said Elise Paschen, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America, which now has 2,500 members. And there were dozens of other
such sessions elsewhere in the United States.
The society has relaxed its membership requirements, realizing that the trend in poetry is pluralism. Its newest theme: All outlooks and styles appreciated.
Today's poets are of many races and sexual orientations. They have no common thread except to tell of their dealings in modern life. In this respect, poetry differs from the confessional free verse that typified much of American poetry in the '70s and '80s.
"You get all groups coming together to read and listen to each other through poetry. People want content in their entertainment," said Steve Cannon, a poet and playwright who recently retired from teaching at Brooklyn's Medger Evers College.
The humanism evoked by the Beats moved into exclusive literary circles, where it got lost among literary theories. Works less frequently reached into the lives of common people who once read verse for its ability to entertain, tickle and bite, people who had thrived on the rhythms and words of such poets as Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost.
American poetry, which decades ago was taught from grade school to high school, had retreated during the last 30 years.
Now there's an "urgent desire for self-expression." Cannon said. And that desire is expressed in poetry performances in places such as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
Tracie Morris, who has traveled the country reading her works, was among the best-known new poets Rather than looking inward, her poetry drew on personal experiences and spoke to a class-consciousness felt by many in today's fragmented society.
Much of yesterday's performance poetry contained humor and irony that bordered on tragedy: Lesbians lament unrequited teen-age crushes; an ex-drug addict cynically saluted the agony of rehab over the boredom of her factory job.
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