I absolutely hate seeing people read from paper or worse, their phones. That's not a performance, at best it's a recital. Memorising words is easy for most people, with practice. There's zero excuse for this. Limited exceptions for new work at open mics, but in a slam or full performance, this is a nil points situation
Excellent! And hilarious as well. Got vicarious satisfaction from footnote 1 🤣🤣🤣
Fantastic piece, equally catty and informative - thank you
I absolutely hate seeing people read from paper or worse, their phones. That's not a performance, at best it's a recital. Memorising words is easy for most people, with practice. There's zero excuse for this. Limited exceptions for new work at open mics, but in a slam or full performance, this is a nil points situation
Counterpoint: I'll give everyone 2900 points or whatever they want if they commit to permanently shutting down their local slam.
Ha, I get you, yeah most of it is terrible. But so is most "page poetry" - I just mean, if you're going to step on stage, learn your lines.