Split This Rock poetry contest winner Sara Brickman. Photo by Sam Smith.
Sara Brickman is an author, performer, and community organizer from Ann Arbor, MI. A 2015 Lambda Literary Fellow, Sara was named the winner of the Split This Rock Poetry Contest by Natalie Diaz. She is the recipient of a grant from 4Culture, A BOAAT Fellowship, the Ken Warfel Fellowship for Poetry in Community, a TENT Writers Fellowship, and is a member of the Bread Loaf and TILL Writers Convergence communities. Her work appears in Indiana Review, Muzzle, Shift, The New, and the anthology Courage: Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls. A nationally recognized performer, Sara has been featured on Button Poetry and collaborated with musicians Mary Lambert and Hollis Wong-Wear. As an educator, she has taught at universities, high schools, needle-exchanges, and community organizing projects nationwide. Sara lives in Charlottesville, VA, where she is currently a Henry Hoyns Fellow and MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Virginia.
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.
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