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livewords February with Day, Howell, Weatherbie + the Sonnet Smackdown

livewords welcomes David Day, Bill Howell and Rod Weatherbie on Thursday February 25 at the Black Swan, 154 Danforth Avenue, just east of Broadview (map). Readings commence at 8 p.m.
+ The Open Mic Sonnet Smackdown – yes damn it – a sonnet fight-to-the death, well not death surely. No a contest for cash and bragging [...]

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Thursday October 22 Open Mic: Cento, Sonnet, Sestina

On the same night we will be graced by Adam Getty, Sonja Greckol, and Blair Trewartha, we are having a form-based Open Mic Contest:
A Cento [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5771] , Sonnet [http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm] or Sestina [http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/reports2000/page9.html]
Poems must be in the one of these forms.
2 $20 prizes for each runner up for best poem of each form.
1 Overall prize of [...]

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