Guide to memorizing poetry and delivering a spectacular performance.

What are the benefits of memorizing poetry?

How could memorizing your poetry change your spoken word performance?

I sometimes feel that audiences at slam poetry events penalize performers that read their work.
Either way audiences respond better to performers who can look them in the eye and make them feel as though they are talking to them individually.
I have seen the difference that memorizing poetry makes to my performance and wanted to share my tips:

1) Repeat your poetry out loud until you are sick of it.

Okay, not so much until you are sick of it but, really, repeat your work to yourself until you remember it. Practice makes perfect, especially when it comes to performing.

A LETTER TO MENSTRUATION by Mercy Harold

 

A LETTER TO  MENSTRUATION.

Dear monthly visitor,

I expected a different knock at the doors of my womb,i looked out for nausea and dark areola's ,cravings and morning sicknesses; but you tickled my vanity and soared painfully like fat raindrops between my legs.

   We always glare at each other every month ,but this time i expected another visitor, My personal arsenal wants to flare up at the unusal fatness shooting at the expectance of a child, I want to feel a child strapped at my back,feel the cligyness at my breast as I feed my child ,i want to form a coherent thought of being called"mother,mama or mom".I agree that your a monthly visitor but I want to reach my sunset ,i solicit for a space of nine(9) months,nine months for my pregnancy to scream outside as a label ,dancing and dangling in the eyes of those that called me barren ,in the eyes of my mother inlaw to shut her rythmic screams of not giving her a child for five years,I hope you understand, i would definitely see you after I bathe my child in a washed sky  and kiss the colour rising from her cheeks.