slam poet Carlos Robson comes to Vol State to share his talent
Silas Alexander-Fagan
Issue date: 11/2/09 Section: News
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Robson performed several poems on a variety of different topics, including civil rights and freedom.
Robson, who grew up in Charlotte, N. C. began doing poetry in high school.
He and some friends started a dance troupe where he was both a dancer and the choreographer. He eventually convinced a teacher to have a hip-hop dance class.
They were given an assignment to either write a rap song or a poem.
Slam poetry is a poetry competition. There are 10 to 15 poets and they pick five random members of the audience to act as judges.
After the poets read their poems the judges scored them from one to 10, then they drop the highest and lowest scores and add them all up.
The top seven poems progress on to the next round and do it again until there are only three poets. Then the top three compete for first, second, and third place.
Robson poems are mainly story poems. "[They are] always true, but not quite the way I say it," said Robson.
One poem was a story about his uncle and his uncles two friends who all came back from the Vietnam War, when they returned none of them were the same people he had known, he admitted that it was quite a depressing poem, but most of his poems are quite interesting and he is very funny in between poems.
Robson began his slam poetry career through another poet named Bluz.
"In the beginning, I really wanted it. I worked in a bar three nights a week so I could perform during the week," said Robson.
He also has an album out and is working on writing a one man play where he plays 12 different immigrants, one of which was a Jamaican and he did a brief performance of that character.
This event was organized and funded by the SGA and ACE, who went to Atlanta for the Atlanta Association of Promotion Campus Events.
"While students were there, they saw several different acts," said Jamey Campbell, coordinator of student activities.
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