The Hangover Hour

<p>The Hangover Hour Spoken Word Salon was a poetry reading held in Worcester Massachusetts from 2013 to 2017. </p><p>It was a fun silly reading that celebrated the writing and style of a by gone age. The host David Macpherson embraced the 30s and 40s of the New Yorker to create his reading. </p><p>The featured performers would come and perform a show based on the writing of someone they always admired but had passed away and they wanted other people to dig it. </p><p>The show was loud and raucous and quite nonsensical. There were also people coming in and reading their own work and that was always the best.</p><p>This book is a memoir of that reading. David has used his files to reconstruct what that reading was like.</p><p>Why do people go to poetry readings? What do they get out of it? This book might not answer those questions but it will try. </p><p><br> </p>