Spoken Word Paris: août 2010

Dates to be confirmed.

I'm bored of themes, so instead here's an idea - for the first SpokenWord in September, write a deliberately ugly poem. So many poems aim at beauty or the sublime. Let's turn that on it's head and aim for ugliness. That's your starting point. Go anywhere you like from there. Of course you might find an ugly poem, or a poem that aims at ugliness, written by some famous or infamous writer. Or one that simply describes something ugly. But what I think will be most interesting is to try to write something yourself without your usual goals, whatever they are, that you have when you're writing poetry, but write a poem that deliberately aims at some kind of ugliness.

J'en ai marre de thèmes. Donc pour le premier soirée de SpokenWord de la rentrée, je vous invite d'écrire un poème laide et/ou moche. Ça peut être interessant.

Salut maintenant

David

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I founded and run SpokenWord because it's fun. And sometimes transcendent. Because I love words and spoken poetry. Paris is a beautiful backwater where life is slower than New York or London, it gives breathing space, distance from the anglo metropoles that supports writing. & the English-speaking community here is just the right size to come together and do something, to provide a home/platform for, to nurture and be nourished by, our/your poetry, stories and songs. A space in which to create something fun, and sometimes sublime. - David

Spoken Word Paris

September dates confirmed

Your assignment for the next SpokenWord in Septembre

Next SpokenWord will be in September. Date to be confirmed.