JUDGES: Please score each poem on a scale of 0.0 - 10.0, and consider both content and performance. 10.0 would be an earth shattering text performed perfectly, and 0.0 would be the worst poem you could imagine performed by someone who shouldn't quit their day job. I encourage you to use decimals, as this will help to avoid ties (use no more than two decimal places only, please.) And, I IMPLORE you to remain consistent with yourself. Give each poem the score that YOU think it deserves -- don't be influenced by the audience or the other judges.
USE THE FOLLOWING SCALE WITH DECIMALS
8-10: standing ovation on the SLAM challenge in this round
6-7 meets all requirements of the SLAM challenge in this round
4-5 meet some of the requirements
1-4 boo hiss off the stage!!!
GENERAL RULES FOR JUDGES AND AUDIENCE MEMBERS
You are not expected to be an expert but you are expected to give the better poem a better score. Just have fun.
The word poetry in POETRY SLAM includes text and performance. You are experiencing the poem only through the performance, and you not be able separate the two. Give each poem one score. Try to give the better poem the better score. The prompt is the guiding condition and the poem must be in align with the prompt, BUT judge all elements within the poem including it’s creativity, and poetry techniques in writing the poem and performing the poem. To judge the performance of the poem judge by poem layout, font, color, background ect. Try to be fair and suspend your personal prejudices.
The audience may not agree with you, but as the better poem gets the better score, you're doing your job well.
Treat all poems you read with respect.
Comments
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I was surfing ...
and found this wave of true enthusiasm and was pleased with what you shared. One of the issues that I notice the most when entering contests is the lack of a comment of any kind by the judge regardless of winning or not! Perhaps you'd like to mention that fact! Certainly a judge read each poem and had a sense of opinion about it ... and that needs to be shared in all fairness to anyone who entered the contest! Isn't that what respect is? A little hint on a typo in your sentence ~~~ "You are experiencing the poem only through the performance, and you (MAY) not be able separate the two."
Thanks for sharing this article, j
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Ah. I loved this for:
there are many "favorites" on this website getting easy gold! (I do not like contests, but I enter to get more reads, for the message is more important to me than the formal structure of the poem. The trophy is a bonus) For any judge objectivity is absolutely a MUST. I also loved how you stressed that all poems should be treated with respect.
Creativity, freshness of phrasings and metaphors, coherence in imagery, and good punctuation or sans, neatness in presentation ... these are all aspects that one should address.
I believe in the very much discussed "gut feeling" in judging anything, in any field, whether it is poetry, drama, music, art, or assessing coworkers in your worksituation One simply KNOWS the winner from the rest. Set that one aside. THEN: after all the others are judged, come back to your gold, and look WHY that one stood out in the first place. You will be amazed to see how that poem often answers to all the rules on all levels.
Thank you Duana for taking the time to post this.
Love
Myra
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