Heat One of our Preliminary Team Selection Slams has ended! Ranks are as follows:
Poets in bold are invited to advance to Semi-Finals on February 18. Congratulations to everyone, and …
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Cantab Recap for Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Cantab Feature for Wednesday, January 28, 2015: Team Selection Preliminaries (First Heat)
The first night of two pools in the Cantab’s famed Team Selection Slams. Slamming tonight: Austin Hendricks, Bobby Crawford, Ellyn Touchette, Marshall Gillson, Mckendy Fils-Aimé, Meaghan Ford, Nathan Comstock, Sophia Holtz. $5 cover tonight to raise funds to send the team to the 2015 National Poetry Slam in Oakland, CA.
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, September 10, 2014
Ah, mid-September, the time when poets’ thoughts turn lightly to those of touring… Fortunately, we got one-time BPS team member Jade Sylvan to hang with us tonight for a full feature before embarking on yet another whirlwind of poetry performance! Jade treated us to both new and older work, reading excerpts from her latest published …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, August 6, 2014
With the slam team out of town, it’s been anything but quiet at the Cantab… Just ask Adam Stone, who was hoping for a nice, peaceful, anti-slammy feature, but instead ended up playing to a packed house while soon-to-be-first-mate-bartender Emily Carroll was busy slinging custom cocktails. Adam took us, as he put it, on a …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, July 23, 2014
A bittersweet night at the Cantab last night, folks: the much-beloved host and producer Kevin Spak presented a farewell feature for his birthday eve, one of the two remaining nights he’ll be a local regular at the Boston Poetry Slam. It wasn’t all tears and sadness, mind you: in honor of the night and …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, July 9, 2014
When the SlamMaster’s away… Emily Carroll and Sean Patrick Mulroy will rule the house with an iron fist! These two dictators employed Nora Meiners and other stern-faced staffers last Wednesday night to make sure no one had even a moment of fun during our sweet and jam-packed open mic. The feature was the cool and …
Tips from the Bar: The Nathan Comstock Prompt
If your family were shape-shifters, what would they turn into?
Cantab Feature for Wednesday, July 9, 2014: Nathan Comstock
A feature from the King of the North himself, Nathan Comstock. Open poetry slam in the 8×8 series.
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