Tag: Andrew Campana

Cantab Feature for February 11, 2015: Erotic Poetry Night and Deadly Sins vs. Heavenly Virtues Slam

Erotic Poetry Sins vs. Virtues Slam 2015

Tighten your panties: it’s our annual Erotic Poetry Open Mic, just in time for Valentine’s Day. And, just to make things a little spicier, our feature slot will be filled by a Deadly Sins vs. Heavenly Virtues Poetry Slam, captained by Jade Sylvan and Sean Patrick Mulroy!

Cantab Recap for Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Andrew Campana takes the stage as the featured poet on October 15, 2014. Photo by Rich Beaubien.

What an excellent open mic at the Cantab last night, folks: poets turned out in droves to hear (and be heard by) Canadian-gone-local poet Andrew Campana, and catching up with Austin poet Jena Kirkpatrick in a super-Southern-sweet spotlight feature. Official photographer Rich Beaubien was also in the house to get a few shots for us: …

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Cantab Feature for Wednesday, October 15, 2014: Andrew Campana

Canada-gone-Boston poet Andrew Campana. Photo by Andrew Littlejohn.

Cantab favorite home from Japan: Andrew Campana. Spotlight from Austin poet Jena Kirkpatrick. Open slam in the 8×8 series.

Cantab Recap for Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Welcome, October poetry fans! One of the joys of having a featured poet every week at the Boston Poetry Slam is the opportunity to book a vast array of poets from different cities and moments in their poetry career. Last night might have been the year’s best example: Ocean Vuong, an award-winning, widely published Pushcart …

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Moonlighting: A Queer Open Mic and Reading Series Featuring Andrew Campana on Thursday, September 4, 2014

Andrew Campana, Toronto native and Japanese literature and media scholar.

Our monthly LGBTQ reading, Moonlighting, featuring Andrew Campana. Hosted by Sean Patrick Mulroy and Emily Carroll.

Tips from the Bar: Ingredients for a Poem With April Penn and Andrew Campana

Tips from the Bar

Ingredients for your poem:

1. The name of a thing obsessed with naming things;
2. Rain;
3. Architecture.

Cantab Recap for Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Cambridge started off this past Wednesday with an unseasonably warm morning, which became an unreasonable snowstorm later that night (it’s New England spring, aren’t we just supposed to be drowning in mud right now?)… But in between, the excellent and hard-working Zeke Russell put his own stamp on the March day. Despite missing our collegiate …

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Cantab Recap for Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Oooooohhhhh, Cantabbers. If your head hurts, your mouth is dry, and you have developed a passionate aversion to mangoes but a sudden attraction to French cheese, you might have been at last night’s Erotic Poetry Night/Box of Doom Slam. For those who don’t, won’t, or can’t remember what happened, we’ll just say: a lot of …

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