Slam and not so slammin poetry (but still good)

Check out these sites to write the required poetry question.
Academy of American Poets

Be A Voice, Not An Echo: DYN Poetry Slam Promo from Digital Youth Network on Vimeo.

Use the Digital Youth Network as a jumping off point. Your task is to find two poems you identify with--one spoken that you've found on your own through youtube or some other site and one text you've found through the poets.org link I provided. Post both of these poems to your blog and give the artists proper credit by providing an MLA formatted citation at the end of your post, like this:

A Page on a Web Site

For an individual page on a Web site, list the author or alias if known, followed by the information covered above for entire Web sites. Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.

Clifton, Lucille. "We Real Cool." poets.org. poets.org, n.d. Web. 11 April 2011.

Click this link for directions on citing a video from youtube (or any other video, just insert the right name):

Finally, for the writing part of this assignment, substantially explore how you relate to each poem. Deal with them separately. Quote at least one line from each and apply it to your life. Then Deal with them together. Do they share any ideas or themes, maybe even a certain kind of voice, rebellious or pleading? What attracts you to this commonality?