February 26th!!

February's Peterborough Poetry Slam will happen on Thursday, February 26th at The Spill!

Last month's winner, jes will be hosting, with Meagh Culkeen as our sacrificial poet, AND featuring kenji tokawa from t.o.!

Sign-up at 8 and show at 8:30! Bring two poems to compete!

Show up early for a seat and if you think you might want to try being an audience judge!

$5/PWYC. all ages. licensed.

kenji tokawa is a proud member of the Toronto Asian Arts Freedom School, Toronto's radical Asian writing and arts workshop for Asian youth, and has had the honour of writing, performing and shit-disturbing with them since June 2007. He has been published in Boyoboy Zine for young queer guys, and CultureSHOCK! the only anti-racist literary publication out of Queens University. He is first-generation mixed-race, studying Asian American poetry for fun and nourishment, writes to heal and hopes one day there will be no need for it. he just published his first chapbook entitled "missing the moon"

(If some of you haven't been before, a poetry slam is a mock competition between poets. There are two rounds of 8-12 poets, who each perform a poem and are then given a score from 1.0 (meh) - 10.0 (fuck yeah!) by a panel of five randomly selected audience judges. Often emotionally and politically charged, the audience is expected and allowed to cheer and jeer the judges and the poets and each other. Expect any and all styles of poetry from folk ballads to hip-hop. And remember - the points aren't the point, the poetry is the point!)