Spoken moving to twice a week

We have been convinced. Spoken will now be held twice a month. Our next reading will be on Sept. 13th when we will announce how we will work the second reading in. Most likely we will run Spoken on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month, but don't take my word on that just yet.

I have my worries about this. Trust me I would like to do a reading every week, I could probably be convinved to do one every other day. The problem is that when I think of Spoken, I picture the last two readings. The turn out has been great and the number of readers we have had has been even better. However, I have been to several readings that are run weekly and the crowds are always smaller and the lists are always shorter. You can put off going to a reading that is once a week, it is much harder to do so when it is once a month. Not that you can't get good numbers at a weekly reading or that weekly readings don't work. I attended one the other night and it certainly didn't make me run from the room and curse poetry. For me, I almost enjoy looking forward to the read as much as the reading itself. I like the time to work on something new. I like the challenge of getting a bigger crowd to engage the poem and for me to find a poem to engage them with. Just my two cents though.

Anyway. Sept 13th. Broadway Pub. If you need directions or more info drop a comment here and drop us an email. Hope to see you all there.

Last nights reading

Personally, I thought things were rather slow to start of the evening. I can't really put my finger on what it was, but it just seemed to lack energy. However, after the break things took off. There was some great stuff through the night, but those of you that read during the second half of the reading....a tip of my hat to ya.

However, there is some bad news. It was bound to happen sooner or later. We broke something. Actually, who did the actually breaking is unknow, but it happened on our watch. A free beer to anybody who writes the best poem dedicated to our broken toilet seat.

Look for pictures from the reading soon and thanks to all the poets and listeners that made it out.

Spoken #2

Hard to believe that we are this close to our next poetry reading. However, we are more than ready and judging from the success of our first reading it should be another great time. I won't hit you up with too much of a sales pitch, other than post a couple of pictures from our first reading at Broadway Pub. In the future I am going to look into putting some sound onto the site so not only can people see what they have been missing but hear it as well.

Spoken #2
Broadway Pub
August 9th
Sign-ups @ 8:00pm

If you would like more info, drop us a line at Spoken!

Some pictures from our last reading....