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Cantab Recap for Wednesday, December 14, 2016

After months of patient waiting, we were extremely pleased to finally welcome Columbus poet and SlamMaster Scott Woods back to our mic this past Wednesday. Scott selected a moving set for us this visit, taking on persona, offering advice, and kicking sand over the line between ally and enemy. If you missed it, and you …

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Cantab Feature for Wednesday, December 14, 2016: Scott Woods

Columbus author Scott Woods. Photo courtesy Columbus Alive.

Columbus SlamMaster, thinker, and general badass Scott Woods. Seventh open poetry slam in the 8×8 series.

Cantab Recap for Wednesday, December 7, 2016

As the nights get longer, poets, so does the Cantab swell with more folks looking to escape the cold world outside! This week saw a full room for a feature by Northampton Jasmin Roberts, who rolled through a nearly all-off-page set of her classic pieces, finishing with a taste of where we hear her work …

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SCHEDULE CHANGE: Cantab Feature for Wednesday, September 7, 2016: Tom Slavin (WAS: Scott Woods)

Tom Slavin performs at the Encyclopedia Show: Somerville in 2014. Photo by Marshall Goff.

Urban Contemporary History Month author Scott Woods. Fourth open poetry slam in the 8×8 series.

Cantab Recap for Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Oh, August: even with five Wednesdays, you were just too short to contain all the late-summer greatness of the month’s Boston Poetry Slam features. Last night, we closed out the month with the incomparable Oompa Williams, who brought the heavy, the melodic, the tight tight story and the barzzzz to the Cantab stage. Watching this …

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Tips from the Bar: The Scott Woods Prompt

Tips from the Bar

Make a list poem of ten ways two things absolutely cannot by compared.

Hat-tip to Scott Woods Makes Lists.

Tips from the Bar: the Scott Woods Prompt

Tips from the Bar

The title for your poem: “The Meteorologist’s Real Agenda.”

Cantab Recap for Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Scott Woods gets up off the page at the Cantab Lounge on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Photo by Rich Beaubien.

What a week it’s been so far at the Boston Poetry Slam. After a rollicking, hilarious show at the Encyclopedia Show on Monday (don’t forget to check out our season finale on April 21, by the way), we had just a day to recover before preparing for a visit from our very favorite president ever, …

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Cantab Feature for Wednesday, March 19, 2014: Scott Woods

Scott Woods, Columbus MC and former president of Poetry Slam, Inc.

One of our very favorites returns: Scott Woods, SlamMaster and ringleader out of Columbus. Open speed slam in the 8×8 series.

Cantab Recap for Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Cambridge started off this past Wednesday with an unseasonably warm morning, which became an unreasonable snowstorm later that night (it’s New England spring, aren’t we just supposed to be drowning in mud right now?)… But in between, the excellent and hard-working Zeke Russell put his own stamp on the March day. Despite missing our collegiate …

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