Cantab Feature for Wednesday, August 24, 2016: Taylor Steele

Brooklyn/Bronx poet Taylor Steele. Photo by Ashley August.

Brooklyn/Bronx poet Taylor Steele. Photo by Ashley August.

Taylor Steele is a Brooklyn-based/Bronx-born spoken word artist, playwright, and essayist. She has been published by several online publications (Apogee Journal, HEArt Journal, Wicked Banshee Press, Blackberry Magazine, Rogue Agent, and many forthcoming), and is a content writer for The Body is Not an Apology. Taylor’s work has been featured on Button Poetry, The Huffington Post, and her chapbook Dirty.Mouth.Kiss will be published in Fall 2016 by Pizza Pi Press. She placed fifth in the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam and sixth in 2016. She believes in the power of art to change, shape, and heal.

This show in our weekly Wednesday series takes place at the Cantab Lounge, 738 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge. Doors for the show open at 7:15. The open mic begins at 8:00 and the feature performs at approximately 10:00. An open poetry slam in the 8×8 series will follow. The show is 18+ (ID required) and the cover charge is $3.