Following are guidelines regarding a poetry slam session. Although most slams follow the same rules these have been taken from Port Veritas, a local artists group which specializes in slam poetry.
Poetry Slam Guidelines
1. Anyone wishing to slam is welcome to sign up.
2. Each poet should come with three original pieces.
3. The slam takes place over three rounds
4. The first round consists of all the slammers, the second and third rounds slammers will be dropped off based on score.
5. Each piece must be three minutes or less. Poets are given a ten second grace period. After that a half point will be deducted for every ten minutes past the three minute mark.
6. Poets may not use props.
7. Poets are scored by random audience members on a scale of one to ten.Ten being the highest. Judges are encouraged to use decimal points to avoid ties.
8. The highest and lowest score for each poet will be dropped.
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