He repeats the phrase again, and then grabs a mallet, striking a gong twice. This is not your father's poetry reading. Monday's event featured four local poets including Kieronski, who goes by the stage name Jameson, Jeffrey Littner, freshman English major Marques Morel and Janean Koebbe, who received her masters degree in English from NIU in December 2000. I want to open people's eyes that poetry is more than syllables and accents. It's also about rhythms.
Poetry prefers a stage to a podium.
This style of poetry is not new. One of the unifying aspects of the forum was allowing the audience to pick the order that the poems are read. On stage during the performance were cards numbered one through 20. The openness is coming from the audience rather than the narrowness coming from the stage toward the audience. The audience yells a number, and Jameson selects a card containing a poet and their poem.