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Yeehaw, cowpokes! With the rodeo in town, this weekend looks to be a busy one. Here's what your amigos at Houstonist are up to.

From Dylan Thomas to William Butler Yeats, from John Donne to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, if you're passionate about dead poets, you should head out to Taft Street Coffee tonight for the Dead Poets Slam. The free event will feature a poetry slam-style competition with a catch: all the poetry recited must have been written by a dead poet:

This is organized as a poetry slam, and competitors are encouraged to have two poems from their chosen dead poet ready. The audience will give scores and we'll discover who is the most slammin' of the deceased bards.

ANYONE CAN PARTICIPATE; all you need to do is find TWO poems by a deceased poet and read them passionately on stage to compete for this best selection and best reading score.

And to further encourage you to give your best reading, there are even prizes!  Of course, you don't have to participate in order to attend; an audience is needed, too. The Dead Poets Slam will get started at 8:00 p.m., but you'll need to be there at 7:30 p.m. to sign up.  And forget about using E. E. Cummings "she being Brand"; that's our bag, and a surefire way to woo the ladies. Dead Poets Slam
Admission: Free!
Date and Time: December 30, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Taft Street Coffee, 2115 Taft Street

Think you have talent? Consider yourself a poet or a musician? Then maybe you'd like to check out or participate in Taft Street Coffee House's weekly Open Mic Tuesday.