Our annual, wildly popular, and dangerously sexy Erotic Poetry Night! Bring your naughtiest open mic poems. Featuring haiku (you know it) from Chloé Cunha and the Love vs. Death poetry slam.
Upcoming Shows
- Cantab Feature for Wednesday, September 27, 2017: Sam Rush
Visiting 2016 NPS Finalist Sam Rush. Sixth open poetry slam in the 8x8 series. - Cantab Feature for Wednesday, October 4, 2017: World Qualifier Champion Zeke Russell
2017 World Qualifier winner, top Boston Poetry Slam Team scorer, and frequent slam host Zeke Russell. No slam tonight: special $5 cover to help send Zeke to IWPS.
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2017 IWPS Representative: Zeke Russell
Zeke Russell, this year's World Qualifier winner, will represent the Boston Poetry Slam in October at the 2017 Individual World Poetry Slam in Spokane, Wash. Photo by Christopher Clauss at NPS 2016.
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Cantab Feature for Wednesday, November 23, 2016: The High School Reunion Slam
An invitational all-star slam where four teams representing the Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors take on all the decades-long nostalgia you can stand for big points and eternal bragging rights.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, June 22, 2016
And just like that, the longest day of the year AND the first summertime 4×4 team slam are both in the books! After sixteen poems in a wicked hot Nationals-style bout, the dust cleared to reveal the following scores:
- 1. House Slam 113.4
2. Boston Poetry Slam 110.3
3. Northampton Poetry Slam …
Cantab Feature for February 10, 2016: Erotic Poetry Night and the Schmaltz Slam
Gird your loins: it’s our annual Erotic Poetry Open Mic, featuring The Schmaltz Slam, a head-to-head poetry slam event between the Pick-Up Lines and the Valentines, produced by the diabolically moonlit Emily Carroll.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Another Erotic Poetry Night survived, poets! We enjoyed a surprisingly smart, consensual, exoticization- and mango-free open mic last night, with highlights from first-time-readers crashing the erotic mic, love-poem-writers adding extra genital imagery for the audience to fill in, and at least a few meta-aware critical erotic moments. Writers, amiright??
We did eventually get down and …
Cantab Feature for February 11, 2015: Erotic Poetry Night and Deadly Sins vs. Heavenly Virtues Slam
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, June 26
It’s finally summer, Cantabbers! And you know what that means: tons of cool slams scheduled for your edification, entertainment, and, of course, pre-enthusing about the National Poetry Slam that’s just weeks away.
Last night’s 4×4 team slam was just a little taste of what you can expect in coming months: four teams brought rock-solid …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, January 2
We don’t fool around on the first Wednesday of the new calendar year, people! Last night, we stuffed a whole buncha people into the venue before the show even started, all of them looking to learn a little something new at Jon Sands’ early-bird workshop. Just a little extra work from these dedicated writers paid …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, August 15
There was a line around the block last night for our little dive bar poetry show! Was it because people heard the open mic would be packed with great work? Or did they know that featured poet Ross Gay was going to be an exceptional feature? Or perhaps they heard that the slam would fill …
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