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...city already crowded with writers and academicians, many poets have fought the Slam as fiercely as slammers in the ring...
Powers doesn't disagree. But he fears that slam winners get attention at the expense of better poets. "The first poem to win the Slam was 'I Stink.' The speaker discussed various bodily smells. It was funny. It was shrill. But it won. A couple poems were good, but got tiny votes...
...right--the first four Boston Slams were hosted by Powers and Stone Soup. "This 'new voice' didn't arrive from Chicago," he says. "Promotion for the Slam says `The energy is back.' Where was it all the other time...
...judge gets particularly loud boos from the audience, especially from fans of McIntyre. Catherine Hogan, sitting in the corner of the room, raises her cards with a hey-you-asked-for-it expression on her face. When McIntyre ultimately takes the Slam from Tweney and Weidershein, she's clearly disappointed...
...Tweney, who nearly won the slam but lost major subtlety points on his wife-beating poem, Hogan says that he "has a future. Definitely...