They plan to give away a bottle of whiskey to some lucky reader or audience member. The society will toast some poetry Saturday at Jay's Upstairs. All are welcome.
People usually read a lot of fucked-up shit.
The Buttered Toast Society is affiliated with the English Department, but it also encourages breaking the bounds of what is academically expected. However, The Buttered Toast Society wasn't always so wild, Grenz said. The group, which started in 1990, was once more of a means for graduate students in English to show off to one another. Grenz became interested in the group in 1995 and was hooked after his first reading, but when he came back in spring 1998 after taking a year off from school, the group had died. In April that year, he raised a new phoenix of the Buttered Toast Society from the old ashes.