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Cascadia Beer Slam Qualifier April 6

March 28, 2014
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Presenting: Runoff! the Cascadia Poetry Festival Beer Slam Qualifier

Sunday April 6th, 8p.m. at Naked City Brewing

Naked City

Naked City

In anticipation of Cascadia Poetry Festival’s Beer Slam, where poets of all styles and locations from around Cascadia show their swagger, Naked City and the Cascadia Poetry Festival present this qualifying round, which will determine who represents Seattle to Cascadia at large. Eight poets will compete bout-style, and the winner goes on to compete May 2nd in the Beer Slam at Spring Street Center at 10pm against poets from all over Cascadia. (Weekend Gold Passes are now on sale at www.CascadiaPoetryFestival.org).

Featuring competing poetic stylings of Morris Stegosaurus, Roberto Ascalon, Casey Tonnelly, Rich Smith, Larry Crist, Sara Brickman, Kris Hall, and Laura Wachs.
This event is free and the bar will be open.8564 Greenwood Ave N
Seattle, WA 98103
206.838.6299Cascadia Poetry Festival logo

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