Analyzing Carolin Caroline Garcia's Poem

I attended the 5th annual grand slam tonight at the JACC. It was really fun and I really feel like I had a poetic breakthrough of some sorts just by the opening performers and that’s what really stuck with me the whole way home. They had four opening performers and I think I had tears in my eyes during the last two. I really just felt so attached to what they were saying and I had never experienced poetry like that before. Amy Pinney read two poems and I could recognize a ton of slant rhymes which was really cool that I could pick up on because usually when reading a poem to myself, it takes me a few times to see the slant rhymes but hearing her read I was able to pick up on them right away. Her poems were about cooking being essentially an art and skiing, both which I could relate to. It was also cool to hear how she paused and tried to imagine how it looked on paper. …show more content…
It was about the event tonight and she really got into it. She was moving around and speaking with so many annunciations, and had a lot of alliteration that worked so well. She used repetition. I thought it was interesting because hearing her read her poem was entirely different from the way that I probably would have read it. I was so intrigued by the way she was saying and showing her words, I didn’t want the poem to stop. It was hilarious but also beautiful. Dee Jay Derego was so incredible; I really almost shed a tear. He gave some background information on the poem that also contributed to the type of emotion that I was feeling. I think the second that Ziggy Unzicker (sacrificial poet) started to play, I honestly feel in love with poetry. I had never really been to into poetry; poetry was just never my thing. After hearing Ziggy Unzicker play those absolutely beautiful tones, I just feel in love so much more with the words that were being spoken. I couldn’t even believe how attached I felt. The way the words flowed was just