The slam poets Rachel McKibbens and Marty McConnell perform together as "The Piper Jane Project". They wrote a poem called "Spine" that was on the IndieFeed podcast a while back. I would really love to use this as a forensics piece, but I need a published source. Is there a book or anthology with an ISBN number where I can get the exact transcript to use for competition?
Slam poetry often doesn’t have a definitive text (for a number of reasons).
If you can cite an actual documented performance (a link to YouTube is usually good enough) that should satisfy most authentication boards.
how is conflict shown in ‘not my business’ and ’search for my tongue’?
Help me plan, please please.
i dont know…but if you choose my answer, You get 3 points back!
and what reason?
I have this exam tomorrow so bare with me with my answer lol.
You could use Limbo for its repetition
But I would probably recommend ‘What were they like’ as it shows the difference in society before and after as well as TS shows society today. You could also mention about TS’s structure and layout. Its all broken which could connote today’s society and how it is just as equally disjointed.
Also the reader leaves the poem asking whether or not the Poem agree’s with the rich way of life or not? As he describes the bin men as ‘Gargoyle’ and ‘Quasimodo’ although on the surface (physically) the poet and his word choice may come across negative a gargoyle actually got rid of evil spirits as bin men prevent/get rid of disease and rubbish etc. You could compare this point with vultures also saying that they also prevent rubbish and bad disease by eating ‘dead flesh’
Both of the poems TS and What were they like also use oxymoronic uses such as (Two scavs-) Plastic Blazers and in WWTL, Bitter sweet. – plastic comes across as cheap whereas a blazer is something a high standard/class person wears. I’d like to thing the bitter sweet oxymoron is more obvious to be explaining. Just incase you don’t know and oxymoron is putting two contrasting things/words together. Hope I helped.
I have to compare how feelings are respresented in Simon Armitage’s ‘Kid’ to a Carol Ann Duffy poem, and two Pre-1914 poems from the AQA English GCSE Anthology. What poems should I compare it to? Thanks!!
Kid is not about parent/son relationships! It’s about Robin ditching Batman! The feelings is expresses are about growing up, growing old, becoming independent. It’s got quite a sarcastic tone to it. You could try comparing it to Before You Were Mine, as both poems explore feelings of separation from an adult figure, although Before You Were Mine is much more loving in tone.
For pre 1914 poems, you could use My Last Duchess (again, the speaker in the poem is referring to someone who is not there any more, his dead wife). And perhaps On My First Sonne. All the feelings in all four of those poems are very clear and easy to write about.
Thank goodness they’ve got rid of the anthology for next year!
As part of a book I’m writing I want to include a small anthology of poems from american poets. What is the status with poetry copyrights? What poems are in the public domain and what ones will I need to get permission to reproduce?
A lot of poems, even very recent ones, can be read for free on the internet but using poems in a published book in which money is spent is probably different from the Internet.
I would check the U.S. copyright office for the answers to the type of questions you’re asking. I know it’s changed the last time I checked, which was a while ago, but I think copyright right on text lasts for the life of the author, plus 75 years after their death or after the life of the copyright renewal, whichever comes first. But for publications before 1975, the copyright was plus 95 years after the author’s death, but I’m really not sure about that. You’d definitely have to go to their site to be sure.
If you’re including poetry in your book that has not been written by you and that has been written in the last 100 years, I’d suggest acquire permissions for reproduction. The legal process that would follow, if you didn’t, gets quite nasty. Since you’re actually printing the works and making a profit from it, it’s best to err on the side of caution.
P.S. If you plan to just extract a few lines of poetry, you can extract two lines of poetry and not have to seek permissions. It’s called "fair use" (running two lines of poetry into one line doesn’t count as one, by the way).
Something happens to a woman as she ages, after the many inner wars she wages, after the last of the maturing phases, she is lured into the realm of divine sages. 
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It’s just me presenting a few pics for a friend. Peace. Love. Harmony.
I enjoy writing poetry and I have already published two poetry anthologies, since the filming of this particular video.
For more information on “Diary of a Truth Seeker: An Enlightening Anthology of Poetry” feel free to check out:
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I broke my leg at the end of the school year, and basically missed everything that we learned about Anthology. I have an Anthology book and my friends told me to study
Seamus Heaney, Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage poems.. But I’m SO stuck, what do I revise about them :\
Help please <3
Thanks.. (The exam is tomorrow, I’m stupid for leaving it last minute I know :\ )
http://thisisenglish.net/literaturepoetry.aspx
The best revision site available for GCSE poetry, it will provide you a MITSL analysis for each poem on how to get an A*.
Kodac Harrison, the local beatnik bluesman, was named Atlantas Best Spoken Word Artist in Creative Loafing. Kodac has co-edited three anthologies of poetry and is chairman of Poetry Atlanta. The second volume received a Best of award in Atlantas Creative Loafing, and one of the poems from the anthology received a Pushcart Prize. Kodac received the Taran Family Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in support of poetry at the 43rd Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards. He hosts the award-winning Java Monkey Speaks.
In this video, Kodac Harrison, singer/songwriter/spoken word artist, acoustic guitarist, performs at the February 8th birthday celebration for poetess Alice Lovelace.
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