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Open Mic Highlights
• In our new “staff sacrifice” that now begins our open mic, Amy spontaneously wrote a golden shovel about a comment in Myles opening spiel regarding “America’s next great top talent”
• River’s “Poem In Which I Remove Myself”
• Jake’s wild piece about how chewing is a form of late-stage capitalism, and how you should eat strawberries without chewing them for the good of mankind
• Kamran read “3 minutes of prose” about the different collective nouns around birds that absolutely delighted the crowd and was, in fact, a poem!
• Fred-Yaah returns the mic after a nearly 20 year absence, with a poem about how he can sense black people walking with him when he’s confronted by racism
•John Lee’s very wry haiku, Edie’s riff on Bailey reoccurring “Queer” poem, and great imagery from first timer Adia
Feature
This week we had another open qualifier poetry slam! Props to open mic-ers Auden, Will, and Jamie who all slammed for the first time! While we had solid work from Kyle and Logan, Kelsey and Brynna stormed their way to the final round, with Brynna taking the win!
Coming Up This Wednesday
Our scheduled feature Aparna Paul has fallen ill, so their feature will be rescheduled. Filling in will be local legend/slam coach/Cantab veteran ZEKE RUSSELL.
Zeke Russell is a poet and housing advocate. He grew up in Central Maine surrounded by artists, lumberjacks and outlaws. He is clean and sober and lives in Boston with his spouse Milo. His debut poetry collection, Wintered Over, is available from Game Over Books. His work has appeared in Wyvern Lit, Drunk In A Midnight Choir, Freezeray Poetry, Maps For Teeth and on Button Poetry online.
– MFG 🚪
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