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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nIn addition, they promoted poetry even more by holding poems in their hands.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n The host, dressed as a cocktail waitress, carried pens, blank napkins, a woven basket and a cornucopia. For this month, everyone present had an opportunity to be a poet\u2013a cocktail napkin poet, that is. Everyone wrote a title on a\u00a0blank napkin and put it in the green basket. Then, they chose a different title from the green basket to develop into a poem. The poems went into the cornucopia.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Magic Jack ATX<\/strong>, who had previously stated\u00a0that he\u2019d never written a cocktail napkin tale,\u00a0changed that status before the show! He spun a cautionary tale about drinking.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Birdman 313<\/strong> read his pithy alcohol slogans.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Jaime Torres<\/strong> recited the most rambling cocktail napkin tale for a sober man.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Lila McCall<\/strong> recounted a spooky cowboy ghost story with a bar setting.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Daniel Davila<\/strong>, who told jokes using a Ronald Reagan accent, followed by his mother\u2019s accent, settled on a good ol\u2019 country boy accent when he told a tale that pulled the audience\u2019s leg.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Teresa Y. Roberson<\/strong> shared her latest sex research during midnight drinks. Topic: what turned men off from performing cunnilingus.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Thom<\/strong> with his cocktail napkin tales medley crew of Magic Jack ATX <\/strong>and Daniel Davila <\/strong>retold how the original cocktail napkin poet innocently stumbled upon our venue among other drinking-inspired tales.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n After the intermission, the lovely rouletter assistants, Daniel<\/strong>, Jack <\/strong>and Thom,<\/strong> read the spontaneous cocktail napkin poems that were created during the show.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Donna Dechen Birdwell, Sangye O\u2019Mara<\/strong> and David<\/strong> each read a poem, inspired by one of Birdwell\u2019s<\/strong> poems.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Louise Richardson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Kirby Mason<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Geovani Zambrana<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Birdman 313<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Zora Ellis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n Kevin Velasco<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Find temporary relief By suspending your belief The tales grow longer When the alcohol\u2019s stronger The storyteller\u2019s a thief The Rouletters took advantage of the wonderful ambient temperature for the traditional group photo. In addition, they promoted poetry even more by holding poems in their hands. The host, dressed as a cocktail waitress, carried pens, … Continue reading 10.12.2014 AWR: Cocktail Napkin Tales<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin-writers-roulette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdreads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdreads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdreads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdreads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdreads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdreads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28679,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdreads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27963\/revisions\/28679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdreads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdreads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathdreads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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