Sure, it was a poetry reading. But don’t imagine quiet, tasteful coffeehouse gatherings populated by berets and tweed, or nodding off with a classmate’s perplexing prose in first-period English — think stomps, snaps, and shouts. Think lively banter, sharp choreography, and most importantly, really good poetry – the kind that strikes a chord, crystalizes […]

WUSLam, Washington University’s premier spoken word poetry group, hosted its final slam, Exec Slam: Battle of the Lineages on April 19 in the Village Black Box.

Washington University’s spoken word poetry group WU-SLam hosted their annual Spring Slam, an event in which seven members from their performance crew performed original poems, February 8 in Graham Chapel. This three-round slam was competitive: Two poets were eliminated after the second round, and the remaining five poets competed in the final round for first, second and third place.

Last semester, I took The Art of Poetry with professor Steven Meyer. We read Wordsworth and Coleridge and “The Opening of the Field” by Robert Duncan, but the most impressive thing we read was William Empsons’ “Seven Types of Ambiguity.”