2. Read this passage from Caroline DuLuca's feature article "Slamming Words: Making Poetry Live."
The engagement with identity politics manifests in a few ways: in terms of participation, poetry slams tend to draw a different crowd than the readings given by poets with more academic backgrounds and formal
training. The people at a poetry slam-including the organizers, the audience, and the poets themselves-tend to be younger and more diverse relative to race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality and gender identity.
What can you infer about the author's attitude toward slam poetry when compared to poetry that is published in a more traditional way, such as by a university press?