NaCl Journal of Performance Poetry: Curriculum

Over the years, I have been invited to a few classrooms to do features. Following these features, I have had conversations with teachers about seeking resources to teach slam or performance poetry. I created this curriculum with one teacher in particular. I consider it more or less incomplete. I would like to cover writing strategies…

Dear God of Childhood

Dear God of Childhood Where did you go? Here one moment, gone the next. You dropped us off at adult practice and said you’d be right back but we haven’t seen you since. All these years later We hold on to some hope that maybe you’re just stuck in traffic. Maybe you’re lost at the…

NaCl Blog of Performance Poetry: The First Post

Where to start in a blog about performance poetry? First of all — the name. For now, I’ve settled on NaCl Blog of Performance Poetry. NaCl is sodium chloride, or salt. I’m from Salt Lake City. I’m open to suggestions. My original idea for this blog was to find a performance poem I could dissect…