Leonard Cohen's Advice for Novice OSR Referees

Leonard Cohen's How To Speak Poetry (1978) speaks to a time when the public performance of poetry was transforming into what Marc Smith would call "slam poetry" some six years later. Poetry and fantasy roleplaying alike quickly evolved in the following decades, but I see parallels in Cohen's "old school" approach to poetry reading and the advice my friends and I dispense to rookie referees and…