03-22-2014, 03:24 PM
Do that. You won't always get what you want, but it never does hurt to ask. Workshops are valuable because of that shift in perspective.
Spoken word is very forgiving. We tend to love it more for the performance value than the words -- though of course the words are important too. On a page (or screen), they're naked and unadorned. They've got to hold themselves up. But fortunately, here we have a lot of people with plenty of Gok Wan-like experience in getting poems to look pretty regardless of the spotlight -- and even those who don't have the experience still have ideas that might just do it for you. The trick is in getting everyone to a point where they know that they're ideas only, not imperatives.
Spoken word is very forgiving. We tend to love it more for the performance value than the words -- though of course the words are important too. On a page (or screen), they're naked and unadorned. They've got to hold themselves up. But fortunately, here we have a lot of people with plenty of Gok Wan-like experience in getting poems to look pretty regardless of the spotlight -- and even those who don't have the experience still have ideas that might just do it for you. The trick is in getting everyone to a point where they know that they're ideas only, not imperatives.
It could be worse