- collecting basin for area precipitation and a series of channels to conduct the water out of the area and toward the sea. - an interconnected group of streams. - collects water over a large area. - drains water toward the ocean.
A A A. Email. Poetry is dying. Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. Poetry is dying. Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. The first poetry slam competition was held in Chicago in 1984.
One poet called a poem a thought, caught in the act of dawning.. Another said a poem is a means of bringing the wind in the grasses into the house. Yet another stated, even more enigmatically: Poetry is a pheasant disappearing in the brush.. It is just like poets, of course, to talk this way: poetically.