"A Bigger Boat" chronicles the Albuquerque Slam Poetry scene's
growth and success at the 2005 National Poetry Slam competition,
which it hosted and won. This collection of poems and personal
memories explores Slam from the voices of the poets who began
developing the Albuquerque scene in 1990 to poets who witnessed and
celebrated the 2005 hometown victory.
Despite Slam's big city origins and arguments that smaller urban
areas could not garner enough community interest to host national
events, the Albuquerque event proved skeptics wrong. The swell of
excitement so exceeded expectations that Danny Solis urged fellow
organizers, "We need a bigger boat!"
The editors of "A Bigger Boat" gathered the works of well-known
local and national poets to provide a window into the world of
competitive poetry, where verse meets performance.
A CD with performances by many of the poets recorded at
Albuquerque poetry slam events is included.
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