Of Pizza and Poets

Saturday, March 10

Miss Tickled Pink and Good Sport picked me up today and whisked me away to a poetry workshop at the downtown library. We got the chance to work with last year's Individual World Poetry Slam champion, which was super cool. Plus also there was free pizza.

We learned a lot about writing for groups and slam strategy in the four hours we spent there. We've got a couple seeds scattered about in terms of ideas for our group piece, and that's nice, but I'm a little unnerved. More than anything, this workshop was a wake up call for me. There's only a month left before the Louder Than a Bomb competition and we don't have any group pieces ready. That's scary.

But we can handle it. If George Watsky can crowd surf through an auditorium of teenage poets like a majestic albatross, we can write a group piece in a month.