Our Finals is coming Feb 27, featuring hiphop legend Sage Francis!

Now you can get advance tickets to this HUGE show, which sold out last year!
Tix are $25

8 poets will vie for the 5-person Toronto Poetry Slam Team, in the gorgeous Bloor Cinema theatre...with special guest feature Sage Francis, a hiphop trailblazer!

Competing poets are (in no partic order):

Naima
SPIN El Poeta
Andre Prefontaine
Trick
Justin G
Vulgar Words
Mofleeka
Optimus Rhyme

Hosted by Dave Silverberg

Our second semifinals is gonna melt your brain!
Cathy Petch is our feature, Rahul Gupta is our coach, and you'll be seeing some of the city's top poets rock the mic right!

$7 cover.
7pm doors 8pm show. No open mic. Closed slam
Competing poets are:
Twiggy Starblade
Justin G
SPIN El Poeta
Trick
Shawna Dimitry
yes
Mofleeka

Which talented Toronto poet will represent Toronto Poetry Slam at the annual Canadian Individual Poetry Slam (CIPS) Championships in Vancouver, aka Verses: Festival of Words? This is the qualifying slam to see who will make that trip to BC!

NOTE: the tournament runs from APRIL 26 - May 1, 2016
ALL CIPS participants must be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants
http://versesfestival.ca/wp/about/poetry-slam/

Another weekend, another hot poetry slam featuring some of the top spoken word artists in the city!

We are back with another workshop, and it's a special one for two reasons:

It will be run by Dave Silverberg, the artistic director and founder of Toronto Poetry Slam! He has brought many workshops to schools and community centres across Ontario, so you're in good hands, poets!

The workshop will focus on writing spoken word poems with fresh powerful imagery, and you'll have an opportunity to perform poems you write then and there. So bring pens, paper, your laptop, whatever...and feel free to also bring poems you've written before in case we have time for an open mic.