/boston-review-edmundson/ Poet and Critic. Author of Close Calls With Nonsense and Belmont: Poems Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:34:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 /boston-review-edmundson/#comment-2 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:38:52 +0000 /?p=35#comment-2 Winning a poetry slam requires some measure of skill and a huge dose of luck. The judges’ tastes, the audience’s reactions, and the poets’ performances all shape a slam event, and what wins one week might not get a poet into the second round the next week. There’s no formula for winning a slam, although you become a stronger poet and performer the same way you get to Carnegie Hall — practice, practice, practice.

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