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Do you like haiku?
We've got some news about a
Slam on Saturday.

Hey, are you a geek?
We've got some news about an
Open mic next week too.

Poetry month is
Not over yet, people of
Philadelphia.

Poems and stories,
Live and in-person, here are
Your Bookish Events.

We are in the midst of National Poetry Month, and Philly is a city of poetry love. It's a fact! How do we know? Just look at this full list of events. It's hard to keep up! How have you been spending this poetry month? Writing a poem a day? Learning to speak in iambic pentameter? Wishing there was a National Fiction Month? Whatever you're doing, whatever you're into, here are a few events to light up the literary places in your brain.

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This weather is slammin’ (see what we did there) and we are totally ready to slam. It’s officially National Poetry Month and we are squirming in our seats with excitement. What incredible things are all you poets cooking up? We’re too curious & oh so excited for what’s to come. If you’re doing the 30 poems in 30 days challenge, we are too and can’t wait to read/hear/experience what cosmic poetic shift April will bring. Some guy once said that April is the cruellest month, but we’re going to have to veto that one, Eliot, because April is proving to be anything but cruel. Here are this week’s Bookish Events: