![]() ![]() When all was said and done, we ended up getting second, losing only to an extremely polished Dallas team. This also received a thunderous response and a high score. We closed with a new team piece called "Working With Kids," a funny poem about how not everyone who works with kids is a saint, and why that's okay. "A woman who knows thin, sometimes makes you see-through." This piece got a great audience response and a high score. "I want a woman who shows skin, knowing she doesn't need to," Healey writes. Josh Healey followed with his solo piece "Baggy Clothes," a personal, storytelling poem addressing standards of beauty. ![]() His score was alright - not as high as we had wanted but still pretty solid. In a poem that a lesser poet would frame as "religious leaders are hypocritical child molesters," Eric manages to turn the lens not just on the guilty, but also on the larger community a very thoughtful piece. It's cramped - but in a nice way - that made our bout with Minneapolis, Dallas, Detroit and Amarillo feel very intimate and intense.Įric Mata began with a solo piece, "God's Work," about our collective responsibility to protect our children. Located in the back of a coffee shop, the Hideout is probably the smallest venue used at the National Poetry Slam this year. It was hot outside, hot in the pool, hot in Book People (Texas' biggest independent bookstore), and particularly hot in our venue on Thursday night, the Hideout Theatre. Today it was at least 140 degrees with 115% humidity. ![]() Madison slam champion Eric Mata rehearses in advance of the team's Thursday night bout at the National Poetry Slam.īefore coming down to Austin, people kept telling me: "You'll love it down there yeah it's hot, but it's not humid like it is in Wisconsin." ![]()
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