So the final day……Saturday….and this day….was special…cuz everyone was done. It had been planned much ahead of time that Steve Miller and Johnny (& few others) would cook up a humongous breakfast at Johnny’s place around 11 and invite all the poets. All the poets were buzzing about which poems they liked and where they were gonna go afterward. I myself got invites to 4 or 5 places around Canada to perform….gotta start traveling!
Anyways, I could talk on for days but at the end of the day Saturday was one big party all day, n at night….everybody went to another small bar scene and danced….yes danced. But not like grinding all over each other and spilling drinks like at clubs; people put their drinks down, and just…danced with each other…even I did! Which is amazing cuz I never dance….but with an environment like that…how could I not?
Anyways, a lot of the poets gave me li’l talks about potential; it really made me want to just excel and take all this poetic experience and ram it in the crowd’s ears next time I go on stage….and that’s exactly what I will do. So this is I.D. reporting from the first ever Canadian Individual Poetry Slam championships saying that I learned a lot…more than I expected, in every way you can imagine….and you’ll catch me at the next slam, coming at you like a new me!

[Dana will be competing at finals on May 6]