I love slam poetry

I sincerely LOVE slam poetry and it saddens me that we didn't get a lesson on it in class. I had a class on it in creative writing and just fell in love. It makes it easier to connect and relate when you hear how it is said aloud, and the way people read it purposefully improves or changes the poem, and I find that fascinating. I love how it sounds like rapping, but isn't. I love how it is writing, but also more. I love how it can be a story or a feeling or sound awkward or sound different, and it's all still good, and all still engaging. It plays with not just what words mean but also how words sound. It's using the English language to it's fullest, in a way that I simply can't master.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6wJl37N9C0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tVVuvA_esM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znIXyFh6dsI