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Cantab Recap for Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Cantabbers! Elbow bumps and hygienic waves to everyone who came out last night for a warm and supportive night. A half-dozen early birds perched expectantly on chairs for torrin a. greathouse to workshop the unreliable narrator: and boy-o, did she come through with a wonderful series of prompts and guidelines. This poet was only in …

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Cantab Workshop for Wednesday, March 11, 2020 with torrin a. greathouse

Workshop leader torrin a. greathouse. Photo by Tarik Dobbs.

Join torrin a. greathouse for a pre-show generative poetry workshop on the progression of memory and the unreliable speaker. $5-$20 sliding scale, advance sign-up recommended (but not required).

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. …

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Cantab Recap for Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Happy March, poets! Wait… is it… mid-March already? Daylight Savings Time? Dare we say… spring? Heckin’ close, Cantabbers, and celebrating last night’s ides was the phantasmic-in-the-flesh apparition of torrin greathouse, author of boy/girl/ghost and perennial slam winner and crafter of delicately brutal work. torrin set to work on our audience last night with a precise …

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Cantab Feature for Wednesday, March 13, 2019: torrin a. greathouse

Local published poet and formidable slammer torrin a. greathouse. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Local favorite and nationally published poet torrin a. greathouse, followed by an open poetry slam with 3-, 2-, and 1-minute rounds.

Cantab Recap for Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Oh, hello there, extremely full basement bar! We had no idea so many people were craving increased pettiness in their lives this week: about a hundred, it turns out, or at least that’s how many piled into the Cantab this Wednesday to get their fill of non-earth-shattering, non-world-changing, wildly unimportant poetry. The first round was …

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