My next column for GotPoetry is going to be about what I saw this week.

Some of you aren’t going to like it.  Some of you are going to love it.  And some of you may defriend me as a result.  I don’t care. 

Bottom line: I’m a lot more hopeful about this rude beast than I’ve been in years.  And in order to talk about that effectively, I’m going to have to talk in some way about a cultural divide within slam that no one talks much about, at least not directly.  This may take a few days to do well, but I will do it.

And then, we’ll see what we shall see, won’t we?