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ESU Presents: The Poetry Massacre
January 15th, 2008 by Richard Trapunski
English students have it tough. Hold on… stay with me for a moment. A regular day consists of drama followed by novels served up on top of a heaping pile of poetry. But that’s not what brings us down. Here’s the problem - everything they assign us is good! Shakespeare, Pope, Shelley, Keats; all they give us is the cream of the crop. We love the classics of English lit, but we’re all critics at heart. Every once in a while we want to read something bad, not because bad literature gives us pleasure, but because blasting it does.
Leave it to the English Students Union to alleviate the pain. It’s called The Poetry Massacre and it’s the cure for what ails you. Each participant brings in and recites a piece of poetry considered to be “bad”. Then the floor is opened to what ESU calls “a five hour onslaught resulting in a collapse of text.” Performances by New York Avenue and The Vestaloynes follow. Admission is $3 or free with a poem. I just wouldn’t suggest bringing something that you wrote - an ego can’t survive the wrath of 50 repressed English students.
Location: O’Grady’s Tap and Grill
Date: Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Time: 9:00 PM
