Show Report Juy 13th
it may have looked as though
pirates inbred with Walt Whitman
were selling their bodies on stage last night
but no, it was merely a poetry slam.
As we get closer to Indie finals the poets are… starting to care?
And you can see it in their stage performances.
Lisa Straehley opened the competition strong, cementing a spot in the second round.
Chris Harbster pulled the high score of the first round with a schizophrenic love poem.
In the second round slam regular Lyrical I and new poet Keith both ripped it, however, they met elimination.
The third round saw Lewis and Clark poet Tessa asking Helen of Troy if anybody has ever “taken her to lunch.” Straehley read a new poem about unicorns in Afghanistan scoring a resounding 27 even . . . which tied the poet who read before her Chris Harbster.
This meant that Lisa and Chris would go into the head to head fourth round with even scores.
In the fourth round, I had to ask myself is their a mental patient on the loose? A blind seer? No wait, it’s Chris Harbster taking first place!
Outside of the competition, the audience couldn’t get enough of our feature Lucky 7.
Lucky decided to do extended versions of many of her poems while also finding moments in each of them to personalize them to the audience. She read her Henney Penney poem directly to/about Santa Cruz weed. During Sock the Pickle she called out a number of audience members, including the nights MC Kevin Holmes.
