It's no Charlie Daniels Band but I guess it will do. The Guardian:
It is a jam, not a slam. President Barack Obama and his cabinet colleagues were today preparing for the first White House poetry party.
Consolidating his reputation for cool after his performance as a stand-up comic on Saturday night, Obama has invited poets and writers, backed by jazz musicians, to perform in the east room tonight.
It was originally billed as a poetry slam but the White House later corrected this, saying that a slam is a competition, which the president's party was not. It was a jam.
Obama promised on the campaign trail that if he was elected, he would throw the White House open to as wide a range of people as possible. Tonight is intended as part of that.
