David Silverberg believes in the power of spoken word, and wants to spread
its goodness to all corners of the world.

David is a performance poet who is very active on the Toronto Poets scene.
He has read at the Art Bar Reading Series (twice), Cryptic Chatter, I.V. Lounge
Reading Series, Nik Beat's Words and Music, and the Toronto Centre for the
Performing Arts. He led a Toronto slam team to the first annual Canadian
Spoken Wordlympics in Ottawa, in 2004 and has been a big contributor to the poetry slam movement in Toronto ever since.

By day, David is a journalist who has written for publications such as eye
Weekly, High Times, Digital Journal, Pound Magazine, Toronto Star, Broken
Pencil and New Canadian. He is enthusiastic about writing articles about the
spoken word movement, which he has done several times in his career. His
recreational passions include basketball, playing guitar, attending theatre,
reading fiction and non-fiction and becoming a better person than he was a
day ago.

Visit a great website David started at www.torontopoetryslam.com for more on what David is a part of in the Toronto Poetry scene.