The most important outcome is the atmosphere of community created by the poet and the listener. The word, the voice, the ear, the gesture, the heart, the mind, the soul. The numbers are for history and sports buffs. The words will linger on long after these numbers cash out. Today another person remarked, this weekend changed my life.
Poets are in the business of transformation.
The University of Michigan slam team tangoed in the slam dance of poetry in a competition against University of California-Berkeley , Case Western Reserve University , Eastern Michigan University , Yale University , Louisiana State University and Southern University . So What indeed.