Nuyorican Poetry Slam Finals
The Nuyorican Poetry Cafe is always a good time and a requisite for anyone living in New York City. Its the place where a lot of the best and the brightest of the city have started their careers and its been a dream of mine forever to read on their stage (it will happen eventually).
I’d love to offer a detailed account of which poets performed and the nature of the poems as well as my opinion on each of them, but I was much to busy enjoying myself, and listening to the message and the words, to focus on pulling out my notebook on the smaller than small tables and trying to scribble while they were introduced.
The guest poet was Amanda Diva of MTV2, Def Poetry and Sirius Radio Fame. I’m hoping that my homeboy jumps on putting his vids of her from the show somewhere online, giving me the opportunity to link in and show instead of tell. (Usually I would take this opportunity to give my opinion on her weakness and strengths, but I’m still tired after a long night. I will say she was dope, in spite of whatever qualities might have eluded her).
She also encouraged everyone to check out her blog.
One of my other favorite poems of the night came from Chad Anderson. Find it on his myspace page titled splitsville (yes us girls were all suckers for his brand of breaking up).
I didn’t catch the last name of Adam from Bushwick, the guy I was personally rooting for but if I figure it out I’ll amend this post with links to his stuff as well.
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