How to perform poetry.

Descriptionhttp://wisdomgame.org -- to EDUCATE, ENTERTAIN, AND ENLIGHTEN—for many years I was a seriously funny performing poet. I only retired because of an excess of rotten tomatoes and sometimes ladies underwear so I’m extremely qualified to teach you how to get up on stage and present your important poetry, especially when no one’s listening or you stand there like a stone because you can’t remember anything. You have to be like a sweating joker. In fact, that’s the title of my book: The Sweating joker poems. If you have a kindle you can download it right here: kindle.amazon.com/work/sweating-joker-poems-ste… or subscribe to this channel and you’ll get to see me and you and a whole bunch of crazy poets plus other stuff.
There’s no need to be afraid or to be serious when you get up on stage to read your poems. No one’s really going to be listening anyway. Here’s the secret. Most people who go to poetry readings are poets. They have their heads up their arses anyway, and at any rate if they are going to perform they are quaking in their books and are not concerned with your poem. Performing poetry is cathartic. It’s good for you. An excellent exercise is to do it extemporaneously without anything in your mind. Very soon you’ll learn that nothing matters. If that sounds solipsistic, then you’re just an epistemological sophomore who is barely existential.
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Thanks for watching. Please email me. [email protected]. The next poem in this series will teach you what humor is and isn’t and how you can use it in your performances. When you stop being so serious and the audience cracks up you’ll know you have balls . . . and for a word juggler that’s very important.