![]() Catching on quickly with younger and ethnically diverse poets, slam poetry competitions spread throughout the country. Alive and thriving since the 1990s, slam poetry was started by poet Marc Smith in 1984 at the Get Me High jazz club in Chicago. ![]() Poetry slams are a type of competition where spoken word poetry is performed and judged by a panel or audience response. With four books of poetry under his belt including No Gravity, Getting Stitches, Scratch and Helium, Rudy is the 2009 National Underground Poetry Slam Champion and 2010 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion. We constantly have to rise above everything With relatable lines like “Cupid is irresponsible, and I’m tired of him using me as target practice,” fans connect to Rudy’s honesty and clamor for more.Ĭonfronting issues like race, politics, love and relationships, class, and religion, he embodies the raw emotional power of spoken word poetry. With over 240,000 followers on Facebook, almost 92,000 followers on Instagram and 38,000 followers on Twitter, Rudy speaks truth to many poetry fans around the globe. As part of their monthly Poetry Slam series, the downtown locale welcomes home the native San Diegan, who travels the world with his spoken word poetry. S.Award-winning slam poet Rudy Francisco brings his magnetic words to Florent Restaurant and Lounge in the Gaslamp on Monday, May 21. Eliot Ted Kooser Terry Tempest Williams The Avett Brothers Tolkien W. Salinger Jack Gilbert Jack Kerouac Jane Hirshfield Jane Kenyon Jim Harrison Kevin Young Kim Addonizio Kim Dower life Linda Pastan Lisel Mueller Louise Glück Love Lyrics Margaret Atwood Marie Howe Mark Strand Mary Oliver Mother Naomi Shihab Nye Neil Gaiman Pablo Neruda Peace Philip Seymour Hoffman poetry Rainer Maria Rilke Rattle Ray Bradbury Raymond Carver Reader Favorite Reader Recommended Reading Repost Richard Jackson Richard Siken Robert Bly Robert Frost Ronald Koertge Ross Gay Rumi Sarah Kay Seamus Heaney slam poetry spring stardust Stephen Dunn Summer Sylvia Plath T.S. cummings Edward Hirsch Ellen Bass Emily Dickinson Faith Shearin Galway Kinnell Garrison Keillor Glen Hansard Gratitude grief J.D. Join 4,906 other subscribers Care to read through the archives? Care to read through the archives? Categories Categories Random Authors and Topics Alice Walker Ali Shapiro Anaïs Nin Andrea Gibson Anne Sexton Annie Dillard Billy Collins Brian Dean Powers Caitlyn Siehl Cats Charles Bukowski Cheryl Strayed Clementine von Radics Compassion czeslaw milosz Dana Gioia David Foster Wallace David Levithan David Shumate David Whyte death Dennis O'Driscoll depression dogs Dorianne Laux e.e. ~ Rudy Francisco has a new chapbook, No Gravity, available HERE on Amazon. Just so we can both have a few things to work onĪren’t we all waiting to be proofread by someone?Īren’t we all praying they will tell us that we make senseīut her imperfections are the things I love about her the most I would drink her until my vision is blurry and my friends take away my keys Her eyes are the only Christmas lights that deserve to be seen all year longīecause her face never figured out how to do it correctly I will say yes before he finishes the sentenceīut when they ask me about my future wife Will be so large that you’ll see it on google mapsĪnd know exactly where our wedding is being held I have no clue what my wedding will look like I don’t know what kind of tux I’ll be wearing Who’ll hold her hand like it’s the only one they’ve ever seen Someone who isn’t a temporary solution to the empty side of the bed ![]() ![]() Someone who doesn’t smell like a Band-Aid drenched in lonely Who wont break out in hives when he hears the word “commitment” The average girl begins to plan her wedding at the age of 7 ![]()
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