1. SLAM
The Evolution of
Ashley Schellhous

2. What is slam poetry?

3. Performance based
Initial emotional impact

4. Slam in the
Past

5. Slam’s predecessors include
Edgar Allen Poe
Gerard Manley Hopkins

6. The world is charged with the grandeur of God
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs — Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
God’s Grandeur

7. Present
Slam
in the

8. Genre
of our Generation

9. Influence in the
Arts
Derrick Brown’s short film A Finger Two Dots Then Me

10. Film Dance Music A Finger Two Dots Then Me Strange Light
You Belong Everywhere

11. Criticism

12. “There are some bad slam poets, hundreds of decent slam poets, and a handful of brilliant ones. There are some bad ‘page’ poets, hundreds of decent ones, and a handful of brilliant ones. For every self-indulgent and narcissistic slam or performance poet, there is a slim book of self-indulgent and narcissistic poems on a shelf somewhere.”

13. of
Slam
Poetry
the
Future

14. Review

15. Review
What is it? Past Present the Arts Future

16. Questions?

17. Slide 1 http://www. stuffeducatedblackpeoplelike
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18. Slide 5 http://spokanefilmfestival
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