Word: tweney
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Then there's Dylan Tweney, a newcomer who doesn't storm in and take the crowd over, but lets his neurotic persona do the job; he writhes as he becomes a guilty wife-beater or a distraught lover. And then there's Marc Weidershein, a middle-aged man who stands square in front of the crowd, reading from his book, incanting the words like a priest in his congregation, which is squished about him on the floor...
Smith, who admits that the Slam is "a rather silly game," says it has given the Boston poetry scene the kick in the pants it needs. The slammers say that the competition energizes them. Tweney says the slam makes him "put in his soul. It's cool...
...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...
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