The playoffs are here, TPS fans! Our first semifinals goes down Jan 5 starring 8 poets from our regular season. 

The list of competitors are:

Nells
Doe
Miranda
Tom Ratt
Prince
Gavin Russell
Sulva

Top four move on to Finals.

Note there is no open mic or open slam at our semifinals and finals shows.

Hosted by Dave Silverberg.

And if you recognize the name Regie Cabico that's because you're a hardcore TPS fan who saw him grace our stage several years and we're thrilled to have him return for our first show in '19!

Regie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and later taking top prizes in three National Poetry Slams. Television credits include 2 seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, NPR'sSnap Judgement & MTV's Free Your Mind. His work appears in over 30 anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, Spoken Word Revolution & The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Mr. Cabico received the 2006 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers for his work teaching at-risk youth at Bellevue Hospital. As a theater artist he received three New York Innovative Theater Award Nominations for his work in Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind with a win for Best Performance Art Production The Kenyon Review recently named Regie Cabico the "Lady Gaga of Poetry" and he has been listed in BUST magazine's 100 Men We Love. He has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg and through Howard Zinn's Portraits Project at NYU, has performed with Stanley Tucci, Jesse Eisenberg & Lupe Fiasco. 

As always doors at 7 and show at 8pm. $7 cover.
All ages.

Accessibility info:

The Drake Hotel Underground:
The Drake Hotel has 1 step at the front door on Queen St. W. There are no steps and a button to open the door on the west side of the building on Beaconsfield.
To get from the lobby to the Underground, there are 19 steps to the doors/bar level, then 4 steps leading from the bar area to where the chairs are setup. Bathrooms are back on the same level as the bar in the Underground. A wheelchair accessible, gender neutral washroom is on the main lobby level. 

Questions about our shows? Email info@torontopoetryslam.com