A group of us went to Kevin's panel on the state of the spoken work in the bay area tonight at the Commonwealth Club. It was awesome. I don't even like poetry or most performance art type of stuff, but the people on the panel, Paul Flores, Emily Kagan and Tim'm West were ... were ... they were incredible. (See, I wouldn't do so well here since expressing myself is obviously not something I do well.)

In any case, I'm all excited about finding poetry slams. Not sure I'm into the open mike stuff, since it's such a mixed bag, but competitive poetry. That just sounds like fun. See Kevin's post for links to this kind of entertainment and participation. And if you want to go with me, let me know!!