I feel like my essay really relates to Drake's rap song that repeats: "We started from the bottom now we here" a billion times. This is because at the beginning of the process I had no idea where I was going to go (like all beginnings I guess), but I knew that I wanted to do something with slam poetry because I was really intrigued by it. My first post regarding my paper entitled "Let's Rewind to My Love for Slam Poetry," announces my official decision to write on slam poetry and also talks about my first social interaction on my essay through Facebook. For my social assignment, I posted a status of my tentative thesis and asked for people's opinions. I wasn't expecting a lot, but a random acquaintance from high school commented who is studying drama and poetry (including slam poetry) at NYU and was very knowledgeable and helpful. He told me his favorite slam poets and the variety of styles within performance poetry of which slam poetry is only one of many. I became interested in performance poetry at large for awhile and in my second post, Claims about Slam Poetry, I
