Studio Public House in St. Petersburg, Florida. Credit: Photo via WordierThanThou/Facebook
You’ll undoubtedly get some books for Christmas, and here’s a chance to pay it forward.

Tampa Bay’s 12-year-old bookish community Wordier Than Thou is a hub for prose-minded folks and regularly holds open mics that cater to poetry, music and spoken word.

The club’s holiday book swap at The Studio Public House asks attendees to bring a new, wrapped book to swap.

If you need a list of great work that came out of the Sunshine State over the last year, check out Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s 2024 Books Issue.

There’s no cover for Wordier Than Thou’s White Elephant Book Swap Holiday Party happening Sunday, Dec. 29 at The Studio Public House in St. Petersburg.

Readers are invited to submit their own events to Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s things to do calendar.

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This article appears in Dec 19-25, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...