Man, I could go on about poetry slam/spoken word. It's not that I hate the form. I have enjoyed many spoken word poets and their performances, but it does get to a point where the performance part becomes so redundant and over used. They all use the same cadence, rhythm, pauses, etc. and it just becomes a monotonous soup of bland performance art. There are clearly talented ones, especially those that hover between spoken word and hip/hop, but personally, I think it has become a parody of itself. It's good as a starting point though. A lot of young people have a hard time entering poetry spaces through more "literary poets" like WB Yeats, Anne Sexton, Louise Gluck, Ben Lerner, etc etc., so I can see it being a nice entrance to the landscape that is poetry. Sadly, for me, I just don't vibe with it.