Essay 2 Invention
Genre: ___Slam Poetry________________________
What brings this
community together?
What are the participants
trying to accomplish? How
does the genre help them
accomplish this?
In what ways does the genre
succeed the most? In what
ways does it fail?
Does the genre enable its
users to represent
themselves fully?
Does the genre limit the way
in which its users can do
their work?
How and why are they using
these particular genres?
What do the genres offer the
participants?
Does the genre allow its
users to do certain things at
the expense of others? And
if so, at what cost?
Why and So, what? Why is
how they use the genre
important? What can you
reveal to your classmates
about it?
Name: _Sarai Sepulveda__________________
Community #1 Community #2 Community #3
Hispanic Poets: Asian Poets: Being blamed for their
Recognizing the Struggling with the tragedies (war)
underlying notion that identity as an Asian- because they “only
a Hispanic born in American who is teach their children
America is still treated inferior as if how to hate”.
“other”. their race did not help
revolutionize the
nation.
Express through slam Express through slam Express through slam
poetry the feeling of poetry being reduced poetry that after
foreignism. to less than “white everything they have
America”. been through, they
teach life.
Allows one to Uses imagery to paint Uses symbolism to
dramatize a “normal” the pictures of Asians compare a Palestinian
conversation past and current to entire massacres.
achievements in the
U.S.
Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Slam poetry allows the Spoken poetry takes Slam/spoken poetry
Hispanic community the words off the allows the
to express the paper that can be Arabian/Palestinian
common frustration of misconstrued and community to take a
being seen as “not allows the Asian persistent issue and
American”. community to speak bring true meaning to
their thoughts the way it.
they meant them.
Community of Genre Claim Where the three overlap
1. Hispanic
poets/community

2. Asian
poets/community

3. Arabian/Palestinian
community