NEXT ROUND - DECEMBER 16th at OSSIA

The next round of the Peterborough Poetry Slam will happen December 16th at OSSIA (231 Hunter St. W.).

This month, we are happy to bring back the homegrown word wizardry of Macer, recent Toronto and Guelph slam champion who traveled to the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word this year as part of the Guelph Spoken Word team. A long-time area poet-in-residence, and founding poet of the slam, Macer has performed and published for bette...r than twenty years in the hinterlands of the world. Macer has grifted a unique poetic voice blending rustic rhythms with a playful spirit. His first novel, Three Red Herring, met with dismal success; his subsequent works are pending. He currently lives…

Come out to perform, be a randomly-selected audience judge, or just sit back and enjoy a couple hours of raucous, heart-breaking, brilliant words.

Bring two poems to compete on the stage. Approx. 3 minutes max. each.

Sign up at 7:30pm. Show at 8pm. $5/PWYC. Always all ages. Everyone welcome. New poets 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!)

Many thanks to The Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support of the Peterborough Poetry Slam Series.