This past Wednesday, we enjoyed a fabulous four-team slam from poets near and far, getting together for our last 4×4 of the year with the Boston Poetry Slam Team! We were hype to see a surprise dose of group work from Endopolis Poetry Room and Mill City Slam, plus new work and a sweet team …
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Cantab Poetry Slam for September 11, 2019: Team 4×4 Slam
A Nationals-style team slam featuring reps from four teams including Northampton, Lowell, and the 2019 Boston Poetry Slam Team! $5 cover to raise funds for the traveling teams.
OBERON Slam on Thursday, August 8, 2019: Boston vs. NYC Tender Match
Our biggest show of the year! Boston and NYC face off in an utterly Tender top-notch head-to-head slam. Produced by the Boston Poetry Slam and the Bowery Poetry Club at Oberon in Harvard Square.
Cantab Poetry Slam for July 3, 2019: Team 4×4 Slam
A Nationals-style team slam featuring reps from four teams including Verbal Slap and the 2019 Boston Poetry Slam Team! $5 cover to raise funds for the teams and presses.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, June 12, 2019
What a night! It was a joy to welcome team slam back to the Cantab, just in time for summer: last night, two established slams and two local presses mixed it up for a wildly satisfying show. After four rounds of literary battle, we’re excited to congratulate pizza pi press on their big win! pizza …
Cantab Poetry Slam for June 12, 2019: Team 4×4 Slam with SFoD, Game Over, and pizza pi
A Nationals-style 4×4 team slam featuring reps from Game Over Books, Manchester’s Slam Free or Die, pizza pi press, and the 2019 Boston Poetry Slam Team! $5 cover to raise funds for the teams and presses.
Cantab Feature for Wednesday, April 24, 2019: Team Selection Semi-Finals
Top qualified poets slam two poems each to see who advances to Finals for the 2019 Boston Poetry Slam Team. Slamming tonight: Dahlia, Yehya, Mugs, Zeke, Lip, Max, Kieran, Myles, George, Arianna, Meaghan, Joshua, and Terah. $5 cover tonight to support the team.
Cantab Feature for Wednesday, April 10, 2019: Siaara Freeman and The Last Chance Slam
Cleveland poet Siaara Freeman and a Last Chance Slam for poets looking to get in (or back in) the team series in time for Semi-Finals.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Happy National Poetry Month, Cantabbers! We are beyond pleased to announce our semi-finalists for the 2019 Boston Poetry Slam Team. After a two-round, four-minute slam, we qualified eleven poets who are ranked as follows:
1. Terah Ehigiator
2. Joshua Elbaum
3. Meaghan Ford
4. Arianna Monet
5. George Abraham
6. …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, March 27, 2019
It’s the last days of National Women’s Month, folks, but this week Justice Ameer gave us plenty to think about and poem upon for the next eleven months of the year. Yes, the month is too short and thirty minutes is not enough time to hear all from Justice that you want, but if you …
Introducing our first FEMS team!
Yehya Barakat, Brittany Frederick, Myles Taylor, and Joshua Elbaum will represent the venue at the 2019 Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam in Boston on October 19-20! Click here for more info about the team. Photo by Kelsey Chaplain at Moonlighting.
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, October 23, 2019: Jess Rizkallah
Editor-in-chief at pizza pi press and Kundiman Fellow Jess Rizkallah. - Moonlighting: A Queer Open Mic and Reading Series on October 27, 2019
TENTATIVE DATE for our freshly relaunched monthly queer reading, Moonlighting. Curated by Myles Taylor and Ilyus Evander.
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