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Open Mic Highlights
• Mary’s Heated Rivalry poem and “I have no one I can give my power to who can also protect it”
• Jennifer’s “Confession of An Emotional Intelligent Avoidant” (great title / relatable!)
• Ember wasn’t supposed to be in town but got to say goodbye for a …
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Note: Tonight’s show (11/19) will start a little later than usual (8:15-8:30), due to the secret music show happening upstairs at the Cantab! While we wait to start, we plan on having a little writing workshop based on lines of poetry gathered by our staff!
Open Mic Highlights
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Open Mic Highlights
• Mary’s poem about writing a commissioned song for a 7-year-old kid named Paulie that turned out to be a scam, and how the idea of Paulie lived on
• Ember’s poem re: the FBI’s claim to categorize trans people as “violent extremists”
• Kelsey’s new piece …
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Open Mic Highlights
• Dave Mingolla’s poem about “quietly interrogating the universe until it speaks”
• First timer Rob M with a short and surprising poem about ladybugs
• The open mic debut of recent BPS feature Kelsey Bigelow, on the road from Iowa
• Donovan’s tribute to Andrea Gibson and …
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Michael: February is the hottest month in the world of the Boston Poetry Slam, and we had a very packed show and slam this past week! Before we get to our epic slam, our open mic did feature some amazing highlights, like Marissa’s sexy-and-fun piece revolving around rhymes for “ratatouille”, River’s …
Happy New Year, Cantabbers! We rang in the new year last week with our first-ever New Year’s Day GALA! Thanks to our partners at Trident Booksellers, we were able to put on a fabulous event, where guests could participate in a great book-bundle raffle; make broadsides, mingle, and of course, hear some poetry!!
Our open …
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Hey Cantab!! What a Wednesday! We had a very smooth night, with regulars doing their regular irregularly fantastic work, such as an incredible blackout poem from Siraj from a job rejection email. We also had a fabulous impassioned memorized debut from Rein Carnation, as well as a string of other debuts …
Hi Cantab! Last Wednesday was a beautiful show. On a day when many people in our community woke up disappointed, shocked, and scared, we all still came together and put on a showcase of our art and voices. Many poems centered on the theme of community, which is now more important than ever. As we …
Hello poets and friends, we had a unique show last week at the Central Square Theater! Thank you to everyone who came out to read and support our venue-for-the-night, especially first-timers Christopher, Zack, and Natalia. We got to hear from our longest-tenured open mic readers Sue Savoy and Charlie R, new favorites Erica Garcia and …
Hey Cantab! What a week! We had our wonderful team showcase last week as a bittersweet end to the 2024 slam season, but more on that later. It was a more “chill” night than normal this week, but still a full open mic and one first-timer! We had beautiful poems from Sarah, Kai, March, Sam …
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