Slam Poetry Audience Responses

Creator: 
Lily Myers
Description: 

Juxtaposition of two different audience responses to slam poetry: snapping and clapping. Lily Myers' poem "Shrinking Women" at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational at Wesleyan University.

Contributor: 
Tanner Johnson
Format: 
wav
Language: 
English
Type: 
audio
Source: 

An audio excerpt from a YouTube video of "Lily Myers - "Shrinking Women" (CUPSI 2013);" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQucWXWXp3k; accessed November 23, 2014.

Date: 
April 18, 2013
Location: 

Wesleyan University; Middletown, CT

Subject: 

slam poetry, snapping, clapping, audience, emotional

Transcription: 

Lily Myers: I spent the whole meeting deciding whether or not I could have another piece of pizza / A circular obsession I never wanted, but inheritance is accidental / Still staring at me with wine-soaked lips from across the kitchen table

Original Format: 
YouTube video
Duration: 
00:00:23
Bit Rate/Frequency: 
128 kbps / 44.1 kHz