http://www.christopherpendergraft.com The musings of a future filmmaker, novelist and ultra-hip celebrity. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:08:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.christopherpendergraft.com/2009/07/poetry-slam-the-bottega-the-first-battle-in-a-brewing-war/#comment-11 joshd Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:47:14 +0000 http://www.christopherpendergraft.com/?p=74#comment-11 I think you should be yourself. I not too shy but I'm often quite and a lot of poets are. So there's nothing wrong with being you. You can find my poetry on http://www.unitedworldpoets.com/. I think you should be yourself. I not too shy but I’m often quite and a lot of poets are. So there’s nothing wrong with being you. You can find my poetry on http://www.unitedworldpoets.com/.

]]> http://www.christopherpendergraft.com/2009/08/the-midnight-sun/#comment-10 PORT CITY POETS: Poem (and video) of the day - “The Midnight Sun” - Port City Poets - Wilmington Star News - Wilmington, NC - Archive Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:07:24 +0000 http://www.christopherpendergraft.com/?p=110#comment-10 [...] more info on the video, click HERE to be taken to Christopher Pendergraft’s blog) Category [...] [...] more info on the video, click HERE to be taken to Christopher Pendergraft’s blog) Category [...]

]]> http://www.christopherpendergraft.com/2009/07/purchased-macbook-pro/#comment-9 Kevin D Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:18:22 +0000 http://www.christopherpendergraft.com/?p=108#comment-9 Traitor. Traitor.

]]> http://www.christopherpendergraft.com/2009/07/poetry-slam-the-bottega-the-first-battle-in-a-brewing-war/#comment-8 bruce Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:53:26 +0000 http://www.christopherpendergraft.com/?p=74#comment-8 Chris, Your comments are accurate. I am a shy person as well as being a poet. I didn't know and don't believe now that a good poet needs to not be shy or be a performer. What occurred Saturday night was about something different. I think people Jeff and David Capps combine that ability to write good/great poetry and "perform," and of the two it seems that Jeff might have had the greater desire to win as a "performer" of poetry that night. So, perhaps there are two crafts at work in the Poetry Slam - performance, memorization, and poetry. Perhaps the judges should have an appreciation for slam poetry that I do not have. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy the evening and I wouldn't want to criticize the craft but it's not my preference - to be honest. I'd appreciate, a bit more, just hearing good poetry. Jean and I, as co-editors for Word Salad, did not hear any poems that we wanted to publish in Word Salad, though I did like your new piece Jeff and do recall liking the piece by David Capps and I did like Andreas piece. Of those, only Jeff's piece got him to round 2. Again, I hate to criticism a different craft but I'd say we are talking about two different crafts at the slam. It's like with music lyrics... what percentage of songs out there would you say have lyrics where the lyrics are good enough to stand alone as a poem does? I'd say very, very few can. For us poets whose craft is the poetry itself, there aren't contests that parallel the poetry slam and that would result in a winner. We've tried to do that with Word Salad... to run contests where people pay an entrance fee and we pick a first, second, third and honorable mention with prizes. Maybe, we should do that when I come in October for the Word Salad party. Or maybe we should start the contest now and have the winners get paid, announced and have them read at that event. What do you think? Bruce Chris,
Your comments are accurate. I am a shy person as well as being a poet. I didn’t know and don’t believe now that a good poet needs to not be shy or be a performer. What occurred Saturday night was about something different. I think people Jeff and David Capps combine that ability to write good/great poetry and “perform,” and of the two it seems that Jeff might have had the greater desire to win as a “performer” of poetry that night.
So, perhaps there are two crafts at work in the Poetry Slam - performance, memorization, and poetry. Perhaps the judges should have an appreciation for slam poetry that I do not have. I’m not saying I didn’t enjoy the evening and I wouldn’t want to criticize the craft but it’s not my preference - to be honest. I’d appreciate, a bit more, just hearing good poetry. Jean and I, as co-editors for Word Salad, did not hear any poems that we wanted to publish in Word Salad, though I did like your new piece Jeff and do recall liking the piece by David Capps and I did like Andreas piece. Of those, only Jeff’s piece got him to round 2.
Again, I hate to criticism a different craft but I’d say we are talking about two different crafts at the slam. It’s like with music lyrics… what percentage of songs out there would you say have lyrics where the lyrics are good enough to stand alone as a poem does? I’d say very, very few can.
For us poets whose craft is the poetry itself, there aren’t contests that parallel the poetry slam and that would result in a winner. We’ve tried to do that with Word Salad… to run contests where people pay an entrance fee and we pick a first, second, third and honorable mention with prizes.
Maybe, we should do that when I come in October for the Word Salad party. Or maybe we should start the contest now and have the winners get paid, announced and have them read at that event. What do you think?
Bruce

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