Online Poetry Community Begins Topic Slam Competitions

Written by Tempered Solomon


Urbanlivez.com, underground hip hop poetry forum is looking for poets, rappers and lyricists.

Atlanta, GA, July 20, 2004 — The Urbanlivez.com online urban poetry community has jumped on torepparttar band wagon ofrepparttar 128915 popular hip-hop, rap battle forum trend. But with a twist. The community is beginning a moderated Poetry Slam Battle Forum.

This hip-hop battle forum is unique from typical rap web communities because ofrepparttar 128916 use of threaded Slam topics. The Topical Slam threads allowrepparttar 128917 authors and competitors think critically, and express their feelings on relevant and pressing issues of current interest.

At any given time, there will be three open Slam Topics. The topics will range from issues of politics, love, nature, evolution, and many more. Inrepparttar 128918 current, often hostile, environment of Hip-Hop rap forums "This forum was created to provide a nuetral ground for both traditional/urban poets, hip hop lyricists and rappers to just post good poetry and be rewarded for it.", says urbanlivez.com web site owner March Moieh Eric Konan.

The first of it's kind, this forum will be a unique outlet for Generation X Hip-Hop artists and lyricists, andrepparttar 128919 younger products of modern rap mass media Generation Ys alike. Likerepparttar 128920 current stand-up Poetry Slam rules,repparttar 128921 forum Topical Slam threads will have rules as well. As an overview, all entries must be less that 50 lines, and each line must be 15 words or less.

The Stuff E-mail Queries are Made of

Written by Mridu Khullar (http://www.WritersCrossing.com)


Your mother always told you how first impressions were extremely important. That’s why whenever you go to meet an editor, you dress impeccably, walk confidently and talk as if you just got out of training with Oprah Winfrey.

But as you sit down to write that e-mail query, you forget everything your mother told you and send editors a query that inevitably brings home rejection. The subject line reads “Query” or something in close proximity withrepparttar language spammers use—“Become Debt Free Today”. You write your e-mail address and Web address, but leave out other information such as your postal address and phone number. And of course, since it’s an e-mail query, you don’t include clips. After all,repparttar 128914 editor explicitly mentioned no attachments, right?

After sending out a dozen queries of this sort, many writers sit in front of their computers hoping that some editor will respond. When no one does, they wonder why their queries aren't getting enough response, even though they did everything right.

But you know what-- there's a better way. E-mail isrepparttar 128915 way to go today, so your queries should hitrepparttar 128916 mark right away. Here are some tips that will meltrepparttar 128917 toughest of editors.

For starters, getrepparttar 128918 subject line right. You’re a writer—so be creative. Instead of writing "query" or "submission" or evenrepparttar 128919 name ofrepparttar 128920 magazine, how about usingrepparttar 128921 title of your article? And I don’t have to tell you thatrepparttar 128922 title you choose should be informative, witty and creative, do I? It doesn’t always have to be funny, but it has to be interesting. Here’srepparttar 128923 format I usually follow for my subject lines:

Query: Creative Article Title

Try to avoid titles that read like spam. “Lose Weight Easily” can be rephrased as “10 Ways to Keep Fit”. Similarly, “Discover Singles in Your Area” is a line spammers love to use, so you could use something more attention-grabbing and less spam-seeming such as “The Top 10 Places to Find your Soul Mate.” Noticerepparttar 128924 difference?

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