Pints and Poetry in the news

Check out the Corvallis Gazette-Times article:

Tables became communal property and the bar was lost in a sea of standing guests at Iovino’s Ristorane on Wednesday night, as the restaurant was packed to capacity for the Corvallis Poetry Slam finals.

For the past six months, local poets have braved the stage at Iovino’s to share their words, or sometimes shout them, sing them, warble them, whisper them, weave them. There aren’t many rules in a poetry slam, other than a time limit, and a panel of judges whose words, and scores, the poets must abide by.

Sometimes, guest poets stop by, such as an Iowa poet who opened the poetry slam finals Wednesday with a rendition of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” and commented that at a recent poetry slam in Seattle not half as many people showed up as were crowded into Iovino’s that night. read more