Comments on: Poetry Slam

By: naomi downie

naomi downie — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:57:54 +0000

wondering if you are interested in creating a womens
poet pose storytelling music plays whatever night in the mountains. Also I am creating a friend and I are creating a book of art and poetry you may be interested to being a part of…email me and lets talk about it. burn your flame for all to feel the heat of your soul, Naomi

By: allecto

allecto — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:27:33 +0000

Lucy, I deleted your comment because I found it irrelevant to the post that I made. Shakespeare is both a racist and a misogynist, if you want my opinion on his work. I, myself, see no point in calling racist, misogynist work poetry.

I generally delete random questions from women whom I don’t know. If your comment was a genuine one, and you really did want to know the answer then I apologise.

If you are also asking whether there are any men whom I would call poets then my answer is yes. I love James Baldwin and Christos Tsiolkas. But aside from them, I haven’t found any other work by men which I would consider calling poetry.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:36:56 +0000

Um, did you delete my comment because you didn’t want to admit that your sweeping, hyperbolic statements are a bit, well…silly?

I’m genuinely curious as to what you think of Shakespeare and how he fits into your “men don’t know poetry” ideology.

It’s not as if I was expressing a dissenting view which required your immediate censorship. I was just asking a question out of curiosity and interest.

By: rey

rey — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:52:57 +0000

Just as a question, how many other women were performing in this competition? And how many men were there?

By: allecto

allecto — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:06:30 +0000

Oh, Naomi, thank you so much for your beautiful, inspiring comments. It is so good to hear from you and reading your poetry on your website was just so good for my soul. Your writing is just amazing. Your artwork too. And as for the prettiness of the blog, websites are much harder to make than blogs, because blogs are already set up for you. But I quite like the look of your website anyways.

I saw the photos on Damian’s site. There are nice ones of you too.

I’m grateful for your passion and inspiring words too. The Earth Mother, the Moon Goddess are such important spiritual necessities for women. I love that your poetry is so in touch with women’s sacred, spiritual power.

By: naomi downie

naomi downie — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:44:06 +0000

Methinks you are wonderful and the Moon Goddess shines her cresent light upon you in thanks of your service to women.
I met you at the poetry slam and finialy refound the little tag of paper with your blog address.here is my wesite as promised: http://au.geocities.com/naomi_downie/index.html
although it is clunkly compared to your professional
blog. it is filled with my goddess poetry and art.
I have re-read The Storm poem you read at the slam,
and loved it. the power of it was really activated that night with your strong voiced reading.
I too was very disappointed when two tradtional male poets won, when there had been so many great women readers. they had both won last year as well which felt strange and unsettling. still the overall experience of meeting and sharing words was wonderful.
I feel very inspired by your blog and want to devour it there is so much to read here and I look forward to explored it.
I am very grateful for your passion for women and our sacred sister journey to finding our shared Godess connection. There is some lovely photos of you on the site http://www.jpa.ifp3.com daminan was taking photos of us all on the night

By: allecto

allecto — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:10:59 +0000

Hm. Don’t know how likely that is. I haven’t heard back about the damned video. Oh well.

By: demonista

demonista — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:27:33 +0000

I wanna see allecto kick intellectual poet butt!

By: allecto

allecto — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:44:19 +0000

Thanks Pisaquari and Level Best.

LB, I know. I hate being stuck down here in Australia when I here about conferences or festivals elsewhere. That is the one bad thing about the internet!!! All of my friends live on the other side of the planet.

By: Level Best

Level Best — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:23:12 +0000

OK, missing out on things like your poetry reading makes me feel steamed about living pretty much as far away in the world from your country as I could possibly be! Of course, the Higher Good is that this means there are womens’ liberationists ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE, so I should stow my disappointment and smile about that.