Hi there poets! Below is a rare weekend recap for you all. But not just any weekend, no, this was an extravagant, artistic, joyous occasion: the 2023 NorthBeast Regional Slam! Saturday began with excitement, coffee runs, and rehearsing as poets from slam teams all over the Northeast filed in to the Cambridge Foundry. We had …
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Recaps from the Boston Poetry Slam @ the Cantab Lounge's weekly show.
Cantab Recap For Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
Hey folks! It’s Myles, filling in this week. Sorry for being a little long-winded this week but there’s lots of ground to cover!
Last week’s open mic was a beautiful reminder of the importance of community arts spaces as many poems orbited grief, dysphoria, diaspora, and difficulty reckoning with the limitations of being alive. Particular …
Cantab Recap For Wednesday, June 21th, 2023
Hello hello!! After an absolutely stellar weekend at the NorthBeast Regional Slam, spirits were light and energized going into this past Wednesday. We had another wonderfully large amount of first-timers up to the mic, dropping bars left and right. There was a bit of a bird theme on the open, with lines about being the daughter of …
Cantab Recap For Wednesday, June 14th, 2023
Another week, another Wednesday, another show (as the prophecy states, “every Wednesday”). This week’s open mic had many first-timers, including Maya who made it clear she is not Adam’s rib. We also learned from another first-timer that glitter is infinity’s mascot, and look forward to a response next week from ∞, the original mascot of …
Cantab Recap For Wednesday, June 7th, 2023
Happy Wednesday and 🌈HAPPY PRIDE🌈 from the Cantab! Last week was INCREDIBLE! We sold out the fastest we had since reopening our doors (sold out over an hour before the show started!) and the anticipatory energy in the room was palpable from the very start. During our open mic, we had banger after banger, with …
Cantab Recap For Wednesday, May 31th, 2023
Happy Cantab Wednesday once again! Last week was once again a spectacular, high-energy night, with the fullest of full open mic and the fullest of full hearts. The energy in the basement was already high after a fantastic workshop from the great Alex Kist that challenged the way we think about vocabulary. During our open …
Cantab Recap For Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
Happy Cantab Wednesday!
Last week contained more than the usual display of talent, as we also had a Spontaneous Speed Slam™️! On a rainy Wednesday evening, we had many-a-newcomer join us for the open mic, including first-timer Jack with a ~memorized~ piece, and new regular Amy See with some striking eco-poetry. The rest of the …
Cantab Recap For Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
It was a really lovely night this past week at the Cantab lounge, one of those rare Wednesdays where linear time was on our side, and everyone on the open mic and waitlist got a chance to read! Special shout out to ’90s Cantab veteran Brian Comiskey for showing up in our basement for the …
Cantab Recap For Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
Welcome back to another recap of Poetry Night at the Cantab! Sold out right at the buzzer, our open mic featured a lot of regulars, along with poems about angels, poems about devils, poems from people back after seven years, and poems from people reading their first poem ever. Shoutout to first-timer Ember for really …
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