It’s official, Cantabbers! After three rounds of poems, at least two heart-stopping comebacks, more twists and turns than you can count plus a whopping 0.001 millimeters of snow, the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge has a 2018 slam team. Cumulative scores on the night gave us the top five poets (in bold) who …
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Cantab Feature for Wednesday, March 21, 2018: Team Selection FINALS
Final night of the Cantab’s famed Team Selection Slams! The top five poets at the end of the night will comprise the 2018 Boston Poetry Slam Team. $5 cover tonight to raise funds for the team’s travel to the National Poetry Slam in Chicago this August.
CANCELLED: Cantab Feature for Wednesday, March 7, 2018: CUPSI Warm-Up
CUPSI-bound collegiate teams to prepare for their upcoming national tournament.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Cantabbers! Thanks to each and every one of you for coming out to the basement last night for SPRING BREAK 2018 Team Selection Semi-Finals! After a roller coaster of a slam, with much of our audience casting some high-quality side-eye at a few judges, we have results. It took two rounds to get the standings …
Cantab Feature for Wednesday, February 21, 2018: Team Selection Semi-Finals
Top qualified poets slam two poems each to see who advances to Finals for the 2017 Boston Poetry Slam Team. $5 cover tonight to raise funds for the team’s travel to the National Poetry Slam.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, January 24, 2018
And so it begins… The first night of our 2018 Team Selection Slams is in the books, with another prelim heat to go before we finalize our roster for semi-finals. This week’s field was strong and getting stronger, with rookies coming out of the woodwork and local veterans digging deep with new work. Check the …
Cantab Feature for Wednesday, January 24, 2018: Team Selection Preliminaries (First Heat)
The first of two grand poetry slams to begin narrowing the field for the 2018 Boston Poetry Slam Team; top six advance to semi-finals in February. $5 cover charge tonight to help send the team to the National Poetry Slam.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Hot January greatness, Cantab! The gusts of our enthusiastic industrial heater were no match for the hair-blown-back level of sweetness and grace from last night’s feature, Nancy Huang. This welcoming, thoughtful, and dexterous writer shook us into and out of our bodies on a journey through her first collection, Favorite Daughter. Nancy’s in New York …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Poets! Wizards! Muggles who retain hopes for magical outcomes! Gdangit, folks, you all packed the house on Wednesday for the Hogwarts House Slam and it might be the most fun we’ve had since we made the four MBTA train lines slam off against each other. Twenty intrepid poets (plus one sacrificial Sorting Hat) represented Hufflepuff, …
Cantab Feature for Wednesday, November 29: Hogwarts House Slam
The House points are not the point… Are they? A team slam featuring Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw vs. Hufflepuff vs. Slytherin.
Upcoming Shows
- Cantab Feature for Wednesday, April 25, 2018: Ashley Davis
2016 NPS finalist Ashley Davis. Eighth and final open SPEED slam in the 8x8 series: 3-, 2-, and 1-minute rounds. - Cantab Feature for Wednesday, May 2, 2018: Kieran Collier and the Champion of Champions Poetry Slam
Local favorite Kieran Collier, plus a Champion of Champions poetry slam: Brandon Melendez defends his title.
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