Listen, lettered lords and ladies, loquacious louts, liquor lovers, libertines, and lushes. Lap luxurious libations and let loose lyrical language! Lash lead-lobed losers, lampoon lickspittles or lecture lacking learners.

On July 3, come into the Press Club and flex your poetry skills. Write a short poem, or a few, share them with your clubmates over a summery gin cocktail, or whatever drink you may prefer.

World Gin Day is in June. Gin comes from the U.K., and so do clerihew poems! Try your hand for the clerihew contest!

What is a clerihew? A clerihew poem:

1. Is biographical and whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view.
2.  Has four lines of irregular length and meter for comic effect.
3. Has a rhyme structure of AABB; the subject matter and wording are often humorously contrived in order to achieve a rhyme.
4. Has a first line that contains, and may consist solely of, the subject’s name.

Tickets are free, but we ask that you register, and donations are always appreciated.

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Some clerihew examples:

Press Club Staple Cass,

Taught me how to fill a glass,

But now when I make her drinks,

All I get is a look that stinks.

Barwoman Julia Bailey,

Helps customers daily,

But for the bartender main,

She serves only pain.

The famous man from Nantucket

Just about kicked the bucket

Cause he can’t do his trick

When the poem isn’t a limerick