Have you ever watched or attended any poetry performances? Do you remember Def Poetry?

Def Poetry? Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long long time. A long time.

Sadly the only poetry reading I ever attended outside a classroom was in a coffee house during the Beat Generation. Sadly, it really put me off poetry for a long time. It also put me off unwashed humanity and condemned buildings...

I have a funny story about a young soldier reciting poetry at our Unit Christmas party. His poem was about a 9 year old boy and it was going OK until he mentioned his father being shot and bleeding out. I assumed that someone would have screened his poem. I pulled him over and said there is a time and place for everything, and this was not the time. I laughed then told him it was a good poem.