beat focused? what do you mean? i think beat and i think of a small club room where there is one microphone and some instrumental accompaniment for a solo scatter, like a scat performer but with words. anyway i think that is the long way of saying i think of beat as jazz poetry. and that definitely means black arts like nikki giovanni or amiri baraka or sonia sanchez. does anyone listen to these felines? (or read them? ha!) anyway forgive my confusion, i just like to hear your critiques so thank you.