***Invite your friends! Enemies! Neighbours! ***
The next round of the Peterborough Poetry Slam happens on Thursday September 24 at The Spill.

*** Peterborough Pride Associated Event see peterboroughpride.ca for more events! I know Drag Bingo is this night too, but make sure to bring your beautiful selves by the slam for a bit and then head over! ***

Featuring the London Slam Team. Funds raised will go towards sending the London Team to Victoria for the 2009 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word.

Bring two poems to compete, volunteer to be an audience "judge," or just sit back, get a drink and enjoy.

Sign-up will start at 7:30, with the show starting at 8. Actually. Prove you can be punctual, baby. Show up between then to be an audience judge! It's fun! Convince people that you'll take bribes of beer and butter tarts. (But you're really doing this for the poetry, right?)

Invite your friends! This will be awesome. Seriously. Come admire the artwork, drink beer or coffee or tea, read poetry into a mic for the first or fiftieth time, giggle in the corner (between poems, of course).

New poets are always welcome and encouraged.

For those 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!