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Open Mic Highlights
If you were at the show last week, you may have heard my slot on the open mic, where I read haiku about each poem that was read before me that night! Here they are for the sake of posterity.
Adam M
what to do with this
poetry journal i just found:
write a haiku
Lou C
i’m going to spit a little
watch out
it’s intensely joyful
Alex Kist
welcoming a tear
for each question i have about love
welcome home
[s.m.] DECKER
roger’s got no head
it’s an interlocking rollercoaster
instead
Speros P
we never wanted
indigo apples
indigo apples stone still
Tyler B
nine times eight times
seven times six times five times
four times three times two one
Edie
happy spelled with backwards p’s
stained
with the comfort of generations
Lauren
what if you were dead
let me tell you a cold hard fact:
you were hit by a bus
Bailey
queer
queer
queer
queer meat suit with the check engine light flashing queer
queer
queer
queer
Mariana
last stop
called at every station—
plausible deniability
Cheyanne
durability of concrete
white cement mold
what is a birthplace?
Kaitie D
gluten-free jesus will not save me so i don’t say anything about how long a haiku should be just do you want to die or kill the part of you that’s hurting? anyway my dad says some weird stuff
Donovan Beck
the light in the oldest lighthouse is still on
who is keeping it?
who
Isaiah
tomato / basil
coconut / lime
the fruit the follows grows the soil
Will S
normal’s hard to resist
surveillance capitalism
is normal
Otto Vock
poetry closes doors
i became an architect
to replace the doors
Mary S
can you believe in me
long enough
for me to finish this haiku
Aruna
holding hands with the divine
i told him nothing right
empty soul alight
Sue Savoy
to the long list of things
i can’t do anymore
you can add parties
Nick Roberts
here comes
cameras-out confidence men with
mosquito bites between both breasts
March Penn
there is a you inside a you
that is all body
falling towards truth
Brynna B
the kind of laugh
where you forgot to breathe:
too loud too proud too much joy
Briana Crockett
does a survivor’s haiku
sound like anger, broken glass,
or reciprocity?
Aparna
i think they only have
the unasked question in my heart
on the menu
Kai W
epiphanies lost in the “watch later” tab
migrate to me
in sleep
Amy Argentar
in two hundred feet
i want to keep on moving
while staying at home
Feature
We had a short (!) and beautiful feature from Jess Yuan this week. Jess gave us some unique persona poems voicing the dreams of a “project manager”, a poem about her long-distance relationship that was written while actually-travelling-the-long-distance on train, a four-part poem relating to the four stomachs of a cow (wild writing prompt alert!) and finished with a vulnerable poem involving secret languages and a refrain admitting “It’s true I don’t know anything about love / So you must not believe my poems”. The audience disagreed with the point, as they were keenly listening and enthusiastic throughout! Thanks Jess!
Coming Up This Wednesday
BPS presents a double feature: The touring poet KERM, and our 2nd community Night, showcasing poems in multiple languages! THERE ARE STILL SPOTS AVAILABLE FOR THE MULTILINGUAL MIC! SIGN UP AT tinyurl.com/MLNIGHT27 if you are interested!
Bio: KERM is a real presence in front of a mic. While he’s relatively new to sharing his words with the world, it’s hard to imagine him doing anything else. He currently resides in LA, but was raised in Nashville, Tennessee; Quincy, Massachusetts; and Attleboro, Massachusetts. His poetry is rooted in reflective storytelling, placing his audiences right beside him, as he time travels through memories oozing nostalgia, processed by a mind molded by comic books and hip-hop. He loves to write about the Black American experience. He loves to write personification poems. He’s finished writing his first poetry book and is currently in the process of getting it published.
See you soon!
– MFG 🚪
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