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General Discussion / Re: How and what did you pay for at NPS?

« on: August 17, 2007, 07:27:28 AM »

Kind benefactors that see the need for poetry, particularly poetry from natives, are difficult to find here.  So we paid for everything ourselves. 

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General Discussion / Re: Slammaster Access Request Archive

« on: May 04, 2007, 10:30:21 PM »

zoEy benally, Four Corners Slam (Farmington, NM) slammaster here....  cannot see Slammaster's Forum.

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General Discussion / Re: Memorization question

« on: April 29, 2007, 09:06:42 AM »

I am consistently scored lower because my material is not memorized.  The judges usually tell me this.  They come up to me afterwards with feedback and usually state that I need to be more prepared.  The perception is if you don't memorize your material, then you have not prepared as much as others. 

After they give me feedback I have to tell them why I have not memorized my poetry:  I was in a car crash in 1998.  I whacked the left side of my head and I lost all my math ability and I lost all my memorization ability.  All that was replaced with poetry.  I cannot memorize.  For several months I took my cards with me when I walked the 2 miles to work.  I tried to memorize three pieces.  Not possible. I still need the cards, but now when I read those poems, I remember my walk to work.