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Open Mic Highlights
• The return of old slam team member Bobby Crawford, who found parallels to the traditional bouquet toss at weddings at a funeral when an uncle fell into an open grave
• Great first-timer poems from Megash, Dyre, Auden, and Madison
• Sue Savoy writing candidly about her sister and their last connections to family
• Just a taste of a long, a multi-part poem/essay from Kaitie D (anti-Thoreau!) and Nick Roberts (púca madness!)
• Cole’s “Storrow without the T” was another ode to/history of the man behind Storrow drive that seems to pop up on the open mic every few months
• Everyone on the open mic greatly respected the time limit, so there no one was left on the waitlist by the end of the night!
Feature
Tonight’s feature was an open poetry slam that filled up quickly! First, big shout out to first timers Courtney and Heather who skipped the open mic and went straight to competing with some heavy hitters! Second, seasoned open mic regulars/veterans Kyle Mendelsohn and Erica Garcia both made incredible Cantab slam debuts, with Kyle going impressively off book and advancing to the final round via a tie. But the night belonged to Mugs Myers and Isaiah Newman, who both outdid themselves with their best performances to date to go along with their highly polished poems. Mugs Myers goes shocking places with their poems, and while they honestly feel almost *too personal* to describe publicly on our website, they did perform their contrapuntal with Judith Butler on one side, and Michel Foucault on the other. Isaiah won the slam by one-tenth of a point, with work on art, bees, the therapist/client dynamic, religion, and the nuance of published language, and will qualify for next year’s team selection slam!
Coming Up This Wednesday
Come get spooky at our TRICK OR TREAT SLAM, where every round starts with a trick and ends with a treat! Each head-to-head round will have THREE WAYS to win extra points toward a sweet prize: wear a costume, do a poem that relates to your costume, AND complete the round’s “trick” (a challenge to incorporate into your poem)! You only need to bring one poem to compete! Email/DM us or line up early if you would like to sign up! NOTE: this slam does NOT qualify poets for team selection, it is for a silly goofy time!
See you later!
– MFG 🚪
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