Performance Poetry

So we had our first workshop with Grace Taylor, co-founder of the South Auckland Poets Collective, and performance poet extraordinaire. She was a great presence in the class, and made the prospect of performing our poetry less daunting. I wasn't really apprehensive about it but a lot of the other students were a bit funny about it. She is very humble and funny and easy to get along with, it was great to have a performance poet in, as I have always wanted to be a page poet but would like to expand myself into performance as well. It would be cool to do both, really well. We looked at a few pieces of some performance poets, which was really cool, discussing/analysing what we liked or didn't like and what things we might like to emulate in our own performance. Grace was great. I was excited before for our performance, and now I'm fucking pumped!!! :)