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PBQ StorySlam! -- Thursday, July 29
Escape the oppressive Philadelphia heat and join us in air conditioning for an evening of deep, meaningful, lasagna-themed flash. Think “Whose line is it anyway” crossed with pretentious beats; we’re a crowd you don’t want to miss (or become). In honor of the National Day of Lasagna, come prepared for the final round with prose or poetry you write in advance, using the word "Lasagna," as object or metaphor. Lasagna will also be offered on the menu. Bring $1 bills for the poker round. Special guest poet Don Riggs has been writing verse, if not always poetry, since sixth grade, when he first published some badly rhyming arrhythmical pieces about medieval knights and Benjamin Franklin in the Pine Cone, news magazine of Pine Crest Elementary School. After a “Rimbaud-like silence” in junior high, he wrote highly wrought agonizing verses in High School, college, and graduate school, when he first came into his own as a neo-Beat performance poet. More recently, he has been experimenting with many styles, and has focused on the sonnet over the past half dozen years. He writes one sonnet – possibly blank, possibly not – every morning in the bath tub before he commutes to Drexel. Want more info? Come out and play. We've said too much already. Hosted by Steve Volk of the Philadelphia Magazine.