I have been surfing famecast and I feel like these poets submitting poems performed at home, on the block, in the back yard and every place except in front of an audience are direspecting themselves if they call themselves professionals and hurting our cause more than helping by submitting bootleg productions.
We poets, performance poets and spoken word artist have to step our game up. We are on a campaign to be recognized as the art form we are and represent and no matter how much I might like the piece submitted,
I'm from the showme state and you gotta showme you earning your stripes working a crowd to survive the critisms, hand claps and all that comes with everything in between. I just have to say if you want my respect or the respect of any person performs as a professional step up to the mic to face lifes likes and dislikes because the title professioanl comes with a price called sacrifice. I want to know who is with me and who is against me and why? I do and will appreciate your responses because the worst thing that will hapeen is I will grow and the best thing that could happen only the future knows.
Peace love respect and blessings
Priest