A double CD highlighting the best performances from last year’s Canadian Festival of Spoken Word is now available. Check out the forum post for more, including a quick way to help promote it.

• Joe Fiorito covered the story slam in one of his recent columns for the Star.

  What was I doing there? I have told narrative tales before, sometimes in this space; my ear is always bent. I was asked to be a judge.

  Judging is subjective, but if I were a publisher on the lookout for the Next Big Bright Young Thing, I’d troll the story slams for talent.

• We now have an online event listings submission thing, which people apparently like, since three new events have been posted in the two days since it went live (there is no reason for you to not experience some spoken word in the coming week). Use it to tell us about your events.

…we now have a picture gallery.

At the moment it just contains a selection of Emily Muir’s pictures from the January slam. Others will be added in the near future.

Feel free to leave comments on them. And if any of you wordlovers have TPS snaps of your own that you’d like to share, let’s talk. Email me at webmaster AT torontopoetryslam DOT com .

Rules to March’s Story Slam have been posted- but not in narrative form, so Dave loses two points.

• We have a forum! Share your words. Comment on slams, post poetry, use it as you like.
• Hogtown hipster newspiles Torontoist and BlogTO take notice, while Valentino moves closer to securing a position as official unofficial TPS cheerleader.
• July guest feature Rives reflects on a day in Toronto before attending the underground sensation known as the “Toronto Poerty Slam” (note to Rives: we spell it that way to confuse the squares).
• And some atmospheric pictures of the ever-emotive Rives’ set, courtesy of Selina:

Pictures from the May slam are now up on the pictures page, featuring, in addition to loveable host Dave Silverberg, those who performed and someone who wrote poetry on their clothes.

We at TPS encourage both.

Pictures from the February and March slams are now online!

And we have updated info on upcoming slams - June’s opening feature has been finalized as Dwayne Morgan, and the date for August’s slam has been chosen. Mark your calendars/poke your PDAs/tell your cat.

Welcome to the redesigned Toronto Poetry Slam website. There are updates to come, so check back soon for new content, including pictures from previous slams, and more.

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