Slam Poetry in Matsumoto, Nagano

left: I performed a piece called "Stone Skimming" at a talent show for the JETs in Nagano. There were about 150 people in attendance and I was able to sell about 20 CDs at intermission after my performance. Two Japanese people bought CDs so they could practice their English at home by reading the lyrics and listening along to the tracks! God only knows what words will sink into their linguistic reservoirs from listening to that CD!


I worked out lighting cues with the stage crew before the performance so the lights would go red during the creepy parts of the piece and green during the tranquil parts.







left: "The limp boy rose to his feet and kept rising three, four, five feet off the ground. Plus an extra two, dangling shoeless, with cuts and bruises, from rocks on the kitchen floor."