ENCINITAS: Poets take stage for 17th annual slam on March 5

ENCINITAS — Enjoy live performances by competitive poets as they take the La Paloma Theatre stage March 5 at 7 p.m. For the 17th annual La Paloma Winter Poetry Slam. Interested poets should arrive by 6 p.m. to sign up. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. at the historic theater located at 471 S. Coast Highway 101 in Encinitas. The event is free to performers and the public. No props, no costumes, no musical instruments are allowed, and five judges picked at random from the audience will observe and mark their scores on a scale of 0 through 10. Attendees are advised that there might be mature content. Poets under age 18 require signed parental permission to participate. For more information, go online to www.fullmoonpoets.org or email [email protected].

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