Poetry
in Motion!
Karen
Alexander and Nile Stanley:
Queen of Rhyme and King of Performance
Available
for Poet-Tree Performance Celebrations,
School Assemblies, Workshops and Conference Keynotes.
For
booking information, contact Nile Stanley.
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Brentwood Poetry Stars
Brentwood Elementary School of the Arts
Jacksonville, FL
FULL
HOUSE
By
Nile Stanley
Karen Alexander
We're here!
To deal you delightful alliterations.
Hit you with poetry celebrations.
We're here!
To stand on words that tickle your tongue.
Cut you rhyme that laughs with love.
We're here!
To shuffle the sounds.
Stand on metaphors.
Hit on straight hearts.
We're here!
The king of performance
The queen of rhyme
We're dealers of poetry
TWO OF A KIND!
We're here!
Show us your hand.
Ante up a rhyme.
We're dealers of poetry
THREE OF A KIND!
Don't fold now!
Deal a deck of poems for this class.
For his spouse
We're dealers of poetry
Now,
A FULL HOUSE!
 "Full
House" Video Clip
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2.56MB (hi-res for
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"Full
House" is a great opening poem for a show. It begins with
a little vaudeville slapstick. Nile and Karen pretend to be
clumsy oafs that can't find each other. Young children are
delighted by their apparent stage blindness. Then poof! The
two performers click together effortlessly like suave, Las
Vegas card dealers. Like river city husksters they entice
and coax the audience into wanting to play with not cards
but words. Using the card game imagery the poets taunt the
audience to "Ante up a rhyme. and Deal a deck of poems.
We
have opened all of the IRA poetry olio gatherings with,
"Full House." The annual IRA Poetry Olio has been four years
running Atlanta 1997, Orlando 1998, San Diego 1999, and
Indianapolis, 2000. The invitation within the poem is -
Come
and join the Poetry Celebration!
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