Portland, Ep. 2

September 8, 2011 — In a northwest literary love-in, it was Live Wire's Scott Poole's elastic mouth that led him to a narrow and momentous victory over fellow co-finalist Fiona McCann in a battle to consume giant marshmallows while pronouncing giant words. It will go down in PDX literary history as the sweetest duel of all time.

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Portland, Ep. 1

A wild and rowdy night, filled with audience howls, joyful drunkenness, and some of the best judging in LDM history, all added up to Future Tense rep Riley Michael Parker out-fruit-smoothie making Tin House rep Arthur Bradford in a narrow 2-1 finish (as chosen by a panel of three taste-expert volunteers) to take home the Literary Death Match championship, making PDX very, very proud. 

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