The new year doesn’t let up, poetry slam fans! Our second Wednesday of 2015 was a grand celebration, featuring the dynamic and very entertaining Pages Matam; Pages rocked the house, tugged at some heartstrings, and even gave away a custom bow-tie after a 90-second audience physical challenge. We wish him the best of luck and …
Tag: Ed Wilkinson
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, November 12, 2014
We told you. We told you that Manvir Singh was going to be outrageous and wildly original, that he was going to take you on journeys you had never experienced before, that he was going to do it with love and brilliance and that JUST MAYBE (okay, we didn’t tell you this part) there would …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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: …
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 …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, September 17, 2014
It was a heady night at the Cantab last night, folks, as Star Trek and Star Wars fans waged a war to be remembered for all eternity… Or at least until the galactically strong drinks wear off. Producer and idea-man Nathan Comstock tempted sixteen poets down the stairs into our wretched hive of booze and …
Cantab Feature for Wednesday, September 17, 2014: Star Trek vs. Star Wars Slam
The Cantab’s first ever Star Trek vs. Star Wars slam! Nathan Comstock produces and hosts this invite-only theme slam, featuring all-star head-to-head match-ups between the ultimate sci-fi universes.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, April 23, 2014
National Poetry Month marches on, folks, and with it come brand new poets to the stage, poems from our regulars, and fabulous new books from our headliners. This past Wednesday’s feature, Hieu Minh Nguyen, brought us a short and intense lifetime of work in a book barely six weeks off the presses. Bypassing banter to …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Finally, finally, finally! After a short and sweet spotlight from the much-missed April Ranger, on the just-about-one-year anniversary of the birth of the famous “Ed! Ed! Ed!” chant, the awesomely cynical and tenderly heartbreaking Ed Wilkinson took the stage for a full set of all-new work. Ed took us on an astronomical, mathematical, and (surprise!) …
Cantab Feature for Wednesday, April 9, 2014: Ed Wilkinson
Manchester favorite and 2013 Boston Poetry Slam Team member Ed Wilkinson. Open speed slam in the 8×8 series.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, April 2, 2014
National Poetry Month at the Cantab started with a bang last night, poetry fans! Or maybe we mean: a cannon boom, a wicked bass beat, and a couple of writing hands’ worth of cracking knuckles. Our open mic readers came prepared with really excellent work to celebrate the season, highlighted by Cameroon-via-D.C. poet and professional …
Come see the 2019 Boston Poetry Slam Team!
The 2019 team is: Terah Ehigiator, Joshua Elbaum, Zeke Russell, and Arianna Monet. Catch the team performing with VLA Dance and RebeccaLynn on November 22 at Urbanity! Illustration by Jen Epervary! Wow!
Upcoming Shows
- Cantab Feature for Wednesday, November 13, 2019: José Olivarez
José Olivarez, award-winning author of Citizen Illegal. - Cantab Feature for Wednesday, November 20, 2019: Maya Phillips
Maya Phillips, author of Erou and past Boston Poetry Slam Team member.
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