In case you didn't know it, San Antonio is home to an emerging art form called the poetry slam - slams, as the most recent form of the venerable poetry reading. You don't have to be a poet to slam. But Ortiz, entertainment editor of the weekly Current, wants to make the Slam even hotter. To deepen the political implications of the proposed event, he's throwing open the Slam to members of the city's Ethics Review Board, recently slammed by Salas. This could be a supreme political entertainment, raising the rough comedy of City Council to an art, and garnering attention for yet another worthy local art event.
Poetry slams are to poems what extreme sports are to cricket.
Definitely a fun, occasionally pretentious, contact sport for the mind. It's also a way to kill a slow Tuesday night. Slams are totally different. You don't have to consider any rules. You do your thing and it's not elitist.