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Open Mic Highlights
• For our second community night, we had bilingual spotlight features from Mariana (Portuguese), Kaitie D (Spanish), and John Lee (Taiwanese). Each performed beautifully, with a special shout out to John for reading and translating a poem from 700 A.D.!
• Joshua forgot the poem they were prepared to read on the way to Cantab, and ended up bravely improvising a poem about numbers and his father
• Edie’s late-night poem walking through Somerville with the line “At night the streets become a ghost town / and I also become a ghost”
• Lily K’s farewell poem (part 2) riffing off Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” – we’ll miss you Lily!
• First timer Helena’s devastating breakup poem that left the audience (ok, maybe just me!) gasping at the end
• Bob S’ poems on hitchhiking 50 years ago and a memorable family dinner from 60 (!) years ago
• First timer Frannie’s stunning 2 poems – a list of what should/shouldn’t be sent to her on her death bed, and a disarming poem-prayer for a past abuser
Feature
We had a mini-feature from touring poet K.E.R.M. this week! K.E.R.M gave a very energetic and fast-paced set–so fast-paced at times the audience wondered where he even took the time to breathe–that wrapped up rhyming, comedy, Spiderman, litanies, and the black experience into an overflowing melting pot of a meal. Other highlights include a poem about your alternate “perfect” self that is not so perfect in the end, and a renunciation of billionaires told through the lens of hating on Batman (despite the poet themselves having a Batman tattoo!) Thanks K.E.R.M.!
Coming Up This Wednesday
We’ve had a change of plans! Daniel Garwood’s planned featured will be rescheduled, so instead there will be an OPEN POETRY SLAM! Come bring 3 poems that are 3 minutes or less and you can win $75 plus a chance to qualify for the 2026 Boston Poetry Slam Team!
See you soon!
– MFG 🚪
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