Individually, Dana and Ali explore their own period - specific sides of Giuliani's Manhattan: Dana does layout at Paper magazine by day and attends slam poetry sessions by night; Ali sneaks out at night to dabble in snorting heroin with the club kids. (vulture.com)
I want the sloppy prayers and the hope and the flags and the unreasonable and embarrassing expectations for the voice of God to break through my life and the unprofessional dancers and the praying in tongues and the Eucharist and the Book of Common prayer being read aloud like it's slam poetry in an old warehouse. (sarahbessey.com)
Williams's first piece scored no points for slam poetry. (firstthings.com)