Wayman Barnes 8.5.01

Last night's "In the Flow" poetry reading happened in a place where I imagine there has never been a poetry reading before - on the Venice Beach basketball court. It was so much fun. We divided into two teams of poets. The person with the ball would freestyle a poem. When the ball was passed, so was the poem. The exciting part was stealing the ball and taking the poem in a whole new direction. Or finishing the poem as you made the basket. I doubt Kwame and Jelena had planned on mixing poetry and basketball, but that is the great thing about "In the Flow" - you never know what is going to happen.