- collecting basin for area precipitation and a series of channels to conduct the water out of the area and toward the sea. - an interconnected group of streams. - collects water over a large area. - drains water toward the ocean.
A A A. Email. Poetry is dying. Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. Poetry is dying. Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. The first poetry slam competition was held in Chicago in 1984.
Eating Poetry. My purpose in the following essay is to suggest a new metaphor for the poetic process, especially as it involves the reader. When I read poetry, I read as if my life depends on it, because it does. Poetry nourishes and sustains me, which explains, perhaps, why I find the eating metaphor useful in describing my experience of it.