… The third day of prelims in the 2010 National Poetry Slam was even more bustling with energy than the previous two nights. City Pages camped out at Wild Tymes for the first bout between Denver, CO; Irving, TX; Manchester, NH; and Orlando, FL. The crowd was sparse towards the beginning–so much so that the slam host commanded the teams to step outside and recruit judges. But once fully stocked with people willing to put numeric rankings on art, things got underway.
Denver’s first poet kicked things off with a bang, telling the story of the rape of a prostitute and the dignity she carried throughout the horrific experience. Starting with a screed on the judgment society passes on prostitutes, and ending with the central character holding a gun to the head of her attacker, the arc paralleled the poet’s intensity and the words spiraled upwards.

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