Take the Mic
Take the Mic is an essential guide for lifting your poetry from the page to the stage.
Marc Kelly Smith (So What!), grand founder of the Slam movement, serves as you personal coach, showing you how to craft stage-worthy verse and deliver a poetry performance that shakes the rafters and sparks thunderous applause.
In Take the Mic, you discover how to…
- Pen poetry that’s conducive to on-stage performance
- Overcome stage fright
- Practice powerful performance techniques
- Rehearse like a pro
- Shape a loose collection of poems into a killer set
- Connect with your audience – heart and soul
- Master the art of self-promotion
- Schedule your own slam poetry tour
- Transform your hobby into paying gigs
- Act professional to establish a solid reputation in the Slam community
Take the Mic is packed with practical exercises you can do alone or in class to hone your skills and transform your body, mind, voice, verse, and spirit into an engaging stage presence.
You’ll also find a brief history of slam, the rules and regulations that govern official slam competitions, and a list of PSI (Poetry Slam, Inc.) Certified Slams, so no matter where you are, you always have a place to Take the Mic!
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The book is fab. Haven’t quite finished, but I’m loving it! It’s really helpful and practical and it’s made me think a lot about what works and what doesn’t, and why. I love the conversational style, it makes it so easy to read. The slam poetry scene is pretty small in Australia, so it’s been awesome to read about its birthplace in Chicago and how big it is in the US.
If anyone is reading this and would like to watch some of my work, please do so, and leave feedback if you can!
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I live in Amsterdam at the moment but plan to move back to Chicago in 2010 and would love to do as is mentioned above “transform your hobby into paying gigs.” I am glad I came aross the book and look forward to reading it. Ill be back to comment on its content.