Cantab Recap For Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025

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Open Mic Highlights

• It was another great night for first-timers! We heard great subtly rhyming work from Isaac and Kay brought us the words of other poets who are consistently speak to her

• Helena’s striking poem about trying to learn how to draw and sketching their partner the way they see them during unseen moments

• TJ Jones’ first memorized poem, which was “experimental…because Myles is not here tonight!”

• Jan’s poem about the “pain and sleep aisle” you find in stores/pharmacies

• Edie’s “I Wrote My Pain a Letter Again” and Will S revisiting the experience that is the combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell

• Keaton’s poem titled “A Vampire named ‘Daddy Issues'”

Feature

We had a full open poetry slam this week! It was a throwdown of many established poets, with scores very tight throughout. Shawn opened up with his meta “This is the first poem of the poetry slam” piece, and we also heard good work from first-time slammer Ember on queerness and familial acceptance. The dreaded time-penalty reared its head for Isaiah and Otto, preventing them from moving on, as second round ties pushed us into a three-person final round. Kaitie D and Kelsey brought highly polished, explosive work, which was in contrast to Roxy Luis Martinez-Dobbs, who did 3 ramshackle manifestos all under 2 minutes that were fuming on attitude, style, and the complications of gender identity and relation/situationships. In the end Kaitie took the win, with Roxy coming in second! Both will qualify for the 2026 Boston Poetry Slam Team Selection slam next year!

Coming Up This Wednesday

This week we have a surprise treat: a feature from regular open mic and slam favorite Otto Vock!

Bio: Otto Vock is a Jewish, non-binary poet and educator from Jersey City, NJ, now based in Somerville, MA, whose work explores the role of play and rebellion in all the nooks of life. Their work has appeared in The Offing, Pigeon Pages NYC, and the Quinobequin Review and their manuscript in progress, They Did Not Comply, recently received an honorable mention from Game Over Book’s 2025 open reading period. Additionally, they are the primary author of the companion curriculum for Phil Kaye’s book of poems, Date & Time, published in partnership with Button Poetry and Project VOICE. Recently, Otto began holding it down at Mass Poetry as their Teen Spoken Word Programming Coordinator and has previously taught at Urban Word NYC, 826 Boston, Grubstreet, and across several Boston Public Library branches providing free and open to the public poetry and personal essay workshops with the BPL’s Community History Department. They are pursuing a Master’s in Educational Studies at Tufts University and engage in trickery within the world of academia whenever possible (always).

See you soon!

– MFG 🚪

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Cantab Recap For Wednesday, August 27th, 2025

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Open Mic Highlights

• For our second community night, we had bilingual spotlight features from Mariana (Portuguese), Kaitie D (Spanish), and John Lee (Taiwanese). Each performed beautifully, with a special shout out to John for reading and translating a poem from 700 A.D.!

• Joshua forgot the poem they were prepared to read on the way to Cantab, and ended up bravely improvising a poem about numbers and his father

• Edie’s late-night poem walking through Somerville with the line “At night the streets become a ghost town / and I also become a ghost”

• Lily K’s farewell poem (part 2) riffing off Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” – we’ll miss you Lily!

• First timer Helena’s devastating breakup poem that left the audience (ok, maybe just me!) gasping at the end

• Bob S’ poems on hitchhiking 50 years ago and a memorable family dinner from 60 (!) years ago

• First timer Frannie’s stunning 2 poems – a list of what should/shouldn’t be sent to her on her death bed, and a disarming poem-prayer for a past abuser

Feature

We had a mini-feature from touring poet K.E.R.M. this week! K.E.R.M gave a very energetic and fast-paced set–so fast-paced at times the audience wondered where he even took the time to breathe–that wrapped up rhyming, comedy, Spiderman, litanies, and the black experience into an overflowing melting pot of a meal. Other highlights include a poem about your alternate “perfect” self that is not so perfect in the end, and a renunciation of billionaires told through the lens of hating on Batman (despite the poet themselves having a Batman tattoo!) Thanks K.E.R.M.!

Coming Up This Wednesday

We’ve had a change of plans! Daniel Garwood’s planned featured will be rescheduled, so instead there will be an OPEN POETRY SLAM! Come bring 3 poems that are 3 minutes or less and you can win $75 plus a chance to qualify for the 2026 Boston Poetry Slam Team!

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– MFG 🚪

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Cantab Recap For Wednesday, August 20th, 2025

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Open Mic Highlights

If you were at the show last week, you may have heard my slot on the open mic, where I read haiku about each poem that was read before me that night! Here they are for the sake of posterity.

Adam M

what to do with this
poetry journal i just found:
write a haiku

Lou C

i’m going to spit a little
watch out
it’s intensely joyful

Alex Kist

welcoming a tear
for each question i have about love
welcome home

[s.m.] DECKER

roger’s got no head
it’s an interlocking rollercoaster
instead

Speros P

we never wanted
indigo apples
indigo apples stone still

Tyler B

nine times eight times
seven times six times five times
four times three times two one

Edie

happy spelled with backwards p’s
stained
with the comfort of generations

Lauren

what if you were dead
let me tell you a cold hard fact:
you were hit by a bus

Bailey

queer
queer
queer
queer meat suit with the check engine light flashing queer
queer
queer
queer

Mariana

last stop
called at every station—
plausible deniability

Cheyanne

durability of concrete
white cement mold
what is a birthplace?

Kaitie D

gluten-free jesus will not save me so i don’t say anything about how long a haiku should be just do you want to die or kill the part of you that’s hurting? anyway my dad says some weird stuff

Donovan Beck

the light in the oldest lighthouse is still on
who is keeping it?
who

Isaiah

tomato / basil
coconut / lime
the fruit the follows grows the soil

Will S

normal’s hard to resist
surveillance capitalism
is normal

Otto Vock

poetry closes doors
i became an architect
to replace the doors

Mary S

can you believe in me
long enough
for me to finish this haiku

Aruna

holding hands with the divine
i told him nothing right
empty soul alight

Sue Savoy

to the long list of things
i can’t do anymore
you can add parties

Nick Roberts

here comes
cameras-out confidence men with
mosquito bites between both breasts

March Penn

there is a you inside a you
that is all body
falling towards truth

Brynna B

the kind of laugh
where you forgot to breathe:
too loud too proud too much joy

Briana Crockett

does a survivor’s haiku
sound like anger, broken glass,
or reciprocity?

Aparna

i think they only have
the unasked question in my heart
on the menu

Kai W

epiphanies lost in the “watch later” tab
migrate to me
in sleep

Amy Argentar

in two hundred feet
i want to keep on moving
while staying at home

Feature

We had a short (!) and beautiful feature from Jess Yuan this week. Jess gave us some unique persona poems voicing the dreams of a “project manager”, a poem about her long-distance relationship that was written while actually-travelling-the-long-distance on train, a four-part poem relating to the four stomachs of a cow (wild writing prompt alert!) and finished with a vulnerable poem involving secret languages and a refrain admitting “It’s true I don’t know anything about love / So you must not believe my poems”. The audience disagreed with the point, as they were keenly listening and enthusiastic throughout! Thanks Jess!

Coming Up This Wednesday

BPS presents a double feature: The touring poet KERM, and our 2nd community Night, showcasing poems in multiple languages! THERE ARE STILL SPOTS AVAILABLE FOR THE MULTILINGUAL MIC! SIGN UP AT tinyurl.com/MLNIGHT27 if you are interested!

Bio: KERM is a real presence in front of a mic. While he’s relatively new to sharing his words with the world, it’s hard to imagine him doing anything else. He currently resides in LA, but was raised in Nashville, Tennessee; Quincy, Massachusetts; and Attleboro, Massachusetts. His poetry is rooted in reflective storytelling, placing his audiences right beside him, as he time travels through memories oozing nostalgia, processed by a mind molded by comic books and hip-hop. He loves to write about the Black American experience. He loves to write personification poems. He’s finished writing his first poetry book and is currently in the process of getting it published.

See you soon!

– MFG 🚪

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Cantab Recap For Wednesday, August 13th, 2025

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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 Will S’s mantra that “You will not die on Route 1”

• Connor’s awkward-yet-endearing tales of failed and non-existent second dates, which was a very close cousin to John Lee’s wryly funny-but-also-uncomfortable poem about autism

• Sue Savoy’s exploration of the lobster emoji that went so many dark and hilarious places that we had to stop to catch our breath afterwards!

Feature

This week we had our 2nd-ever tag team slam! Teams of two came up to the mic to each do one individual piece in the first two rounds, and then perform a group piece together in the final round. After the novelty of a Sue Savoy/Michael F. Gill (aka me!) group piece sacrifice, we heard a lot of tried-and-true individual poems, with some surprises with Mary S’s “I’m a closed book” poem and Edie revisiting their proposition on why we should all streak down Massachusetts Ave. Fireworks did happen the group piece round, with Kaitie D and Ilse writing about being accidentally locked in the Kmart overnight, Ilse and Mary taking on what might be called “the lesbian gaze”, and Myles and Aparna deliberately going over time with a deconstructed tale about what happens after they get a “boy body” delivered in the mail. But the big winners were the powerhouse duo of Jen Martinez and Amy Argentar, who once again left the audience stunned with their piece on woman and gossip. Thanks to everyone who stayed late for this very fun slam that really builds to a crescendo as it goes on!

Coming Up This Wednesday

This week’s feature is Jess Yuan! Jess Yuan (she/her) is a poet, educator, and architect. She is the author of Slow Render (2024), winner of the Airlie Prize, and Threshold Amnesia (2020), winner of the Yemassee Chapbook Contest. Jess holds an MFA in Poetry from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and has received support from Kundiman and Miami Writers Institute. Her poems appear in Best New Poets, Tupelo Quarterly Review, jubilat, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is a licensed architect and Director of Intermediate Studios at Boston Architectural College.

See you later!

– MFG 🚪

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Cantab Recap For Wednesday, August 6th, 2025

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NOTE FOR TONIGHT’S 08/13 SHOW: Doors will be open by 7 pm, but our open mic will start at 8 pm like usual! There is a sold-out ticketed show upstairs at the Cantab, so folks will wait downstairs for our show to start instead of upstairs.

Open Mic Highlights

• It was an incredible night of first timers, who made up nearly HALF the open mic! It was amazing how many newcomers seemed to fit in to our community right away, so hopefully you will all come back!

• Sam F’s ode to diners and “patriotic indigestion”

• The return of open mic veteran Dave Mingolla, who gave us two memorized poems, both with intriguing first lines (“If I could stop talking…” and “When I decided to join the other non-zombie neighbors”)

• Greg M’s “To the Person I Love, During A Bank Crisis”

• Lily K’s farewell poem / love letter to Massachusetts: “I’m going back to California where sadness makes sense”, after Danez Smith

• The debut of Jarvis hosting the open mic!

• The JV SMOOVE EXPERIENCE (which consists of a bombastic intro where he gets the audience to yell “I Heard That”, followed by shy, tender poem read slowly)

• Jennifer Martinez thunderous poem for an “expired crush” that focused itself around weightlifting

• Aparna’s reverse abecedarian about her Mom’s name (which begins with Z) and her name (which begins with A)

Feature

Our feature was the two-decade slam veteran Tim Stafford, finally gracing our feature stage for the first time! Poems from Tim’s new book “Broke Stay Broke” (Write Bloody Books, 2025) were the centerpiece of the night, and with a lot of local Chicago flavor as the backdrop, he regaled us with poetic adventures in being broke. Highlights included pieces on how to show up to a party hosted by “Old Money”, the yearning for a lazy, well-paid office job, being stuck in a loop of working too much even when you are able to pay the bills, and the phenomenon of “Wilco Dads” in Chicago (Don’t say anything bad about the band Wilco in the windy city!) Tim also graciously gave us entertaining and informative stories behind his work between poems, including the tale of a surprise meeting of Cantab veteran Ryk McIntyre in the Lizzy Borden House. Thanks Tim!

Coming Up This Wednesday

It’s the return of the Tag Team Slam! Teams of two will face off against each other, with each team member doing one individual poem, and then coming together to do a group piece for their third poem. Winning team gets a spot in the 2026 BPS team selection slam, plus $50! There are still slots available at the moment, so send us a DM/email/see a staff member tonight if you have a team of two interested!

See you soon,

– MFG 🚪

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Cantab Recap For Wednesday, July 30th, 2025

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Open Mic Highlights

• Somaia’s didactic poem on how to do fire eating at the Dyke March

• We got a farewell poem from open-mic regular and haiku finalist Siraj Ali, soon-to-be leaving us for Michigan. Siraj’s wry humor and quietly affecting miniature poems will be missed!

• Kaitie D’s time-traveling piece that warped around from a 2018 uber ride to a frozen-in-time version of Trivial Pursuit from 1981

• Lauren’s “A Summer’s Worth of Therapy in under 3 minutes” and Jacqui’s poem that “asked wrinkles if they want to stay”

• The manifesto of the newly named Roxy Martinez-Dobbs (fka as Eddy), returning to the mic after an entrepreneurial absence

• A surprise return and hosting turn by former staff member Kat Anderson, who drove in from NY just to see our feature

• After the open mic, we had our haiku slam! There was some fun messing with the form tonight, with TJ Jones really extending his intro with a long-crashing wave of silence, and Shawn seeing how long he could draw out the title of his haiku before getting shooed off stage (we let him go on for like 30 seconds, maybe we’ll get the full version some other time!) In the final round, two-time defending haiku champion Aparna Paul and Skylar Pape had an equal amount of applause after two votes, with Skylar deferring the win to Aparna in the end.

Feature

Staff member and long-time open mic and slam favorite Briana Crockett was our feature tonight, celebrating the release of their new book, A Body of Want: A Galaxy of Other Trinkets, out on Game Over Books. It was a captivating performance, be sure to watch it again on our instagram feed if you weren’t there! Opening up with asking the entire audience to stand up, stretch, and hug themselves, Briana then settled into a set of well-crafted extended poems that touched on autonomy, the body, remediation, how “the revolution belongs to the soft touch of your sister”, and stories of growing up in Boston’s schools and churches. The most beautiful moment came during a poem dedicated to her high school bully Nicholas, who later became a victim of gun violence. Briana’s compassionate and empathic urge to “write him a different destiny” had a good deal of the audience moved to tears. Thank you, Briana, for sharing your work and being a part of this community!

Coming Up This Wednesday

This week’s feature is a “Patricia Smith-approved” poet, Tim Stafford, on tour from Chicago!

Bio: Tim Stafford is a poet and educator from Lyons, IL. A former Chicago Poetry Slam Champion, his work has appeared in The Offing, 68 to 05, Taco Bell Quarterly, and on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam. He has appeared at poetry festivals across the U.S. and Europe, including the ABC Brecht Festival (Germany), the Zurich Poetry Slam Invitational (Switzerland), and the International Spoken Word Festival (Denmark/Germany). He is the editor of the all-ages spoken word anthology series “Learn Then Burn”, as well as the author of the poetry collections “The Patron Saint of Making Curfew” (Haymarket Books, 2021) and “Broke Stay Broke” (Write Bloody Books, 2025). He is a Poetry Foundation Incubator Fellow and the winner of the 2024 Jack McCarthy Poetry Prize.

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– MFG 🚪

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Cantab Recap For Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025

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Appropriate for our first community-themed night, this Wednesday was the most diverse open mics of the year, with wild swings in topic, mood, and genre!

Open Mic Highlights

• Greg M read John Donne and first-timer Vincent remixed/dismantled Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias”

• Intricate and layered Golden Shovels from Kaitie D and Aparna that also expanded the form to include multiple quotes

• Outrageously queer and shamelessly horny poems by Alice Sparrow and Miche that torn the room into disbelief

• Naomi’s epic “Blue Clues”-themed / trans-coming-of-age piece

• Addy’s heart-wrenching and beautifully performed poem in Spanish (no translation needed to get the emotional effect)

• Otto’s surrealistic persona poem in the voice of Plastic, and the insatiable consumption humans have for it

• Skylar on how to be brave, and the experience of non-violent protest taken to the limit

• Sue Savoy covering Kevin Mahoney’s disturbing but funny “I-love-my-rat-roommates” poem that was performed on the Cantab stage decades ago.

Feature

For our first community night feature, we heard from open-mic regulars reading works by artists who first inspired them to write poetry. Host Brynna also provided a writing exercise encouraging us to pen a letter to local (or not local) poets, and then to actually send it to them. It was a warm, relaxed environment for a feature, as each reader was able to expand on why they chose the artist in question. Check out the list of covers below:

  • “Myself, First” by Ariana Brown
  • “Opportunity Wake Up” by Neil Hillborn
  • “Horse Boy,” by Bailey M, After Will Leonard
  • “Snakes in Your Arms” by Shira Erlichman
  • “Summer, Highland Falls” by Billy Joel
  • “Comfort Woman’s Gold” by Scott Woods
  • “Wet Paint” by Carlos Williams
  • “Photograph” by Andrea Gibson

Coming Up This Wednesday

This week we have the long-awaited book release feature by our own BPS staff member Briana Crockett!

Bio: Briana Crockett is a Boston native that has too many jackets and not enough space. She is a neighborhood activist, a learner, a foodie, a joke teller/laugh influencer, a self-taught hair stylist and wig maker for the fun of it. Briana Is a reality tv lover, purely for the study of relationships and people. There is a story in everything. She believes the same in poetry. She’s a griot. Her poetry is a reflection of her culture, history, community, language, imagination, and power in giving a voice to the human experience. Though she may not write every day, she believes poems are essential to the way she sees the world and interacts with everyday life. She’s involved with the poetry scene in Boston. Briana has participated in Button Poetry’s Publishers Slam in 2021 and 2023, performed on GBH Boston’s Outspoken Saturdays, performed as apart of Boston Poetry Slam Organization, and various other Boston artist and activist spaces. She published a chapbook The Growing Place (2020) and an ebook When the World Stopped//We Were Still Beautiful. Her next book “A Body of Want: A Galaxy of Other Trinkets” is her second full length poetry book in print. She can be found talking with her hands (nails long) and on a tangent. You can find her listening to music, taking pictures of flowers, and hoarding hot sauce. If she were a poem, she’d be a Def Jam freestyle in 2004 probably performed by Mos Def (Yasiin Bey) or sung by Jill Scott.

See you soon,

– MFG 🚪

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Cantab Recap For Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

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Open Mic Highlights

• The passing of Andrea Gibson led to an outpouring of support for this performance poetry legend, we had Andrea-inspired poems and tributes by Caroline Sims, Hunter, March Penn, and our hosts.

• Meredith’s “What do I do with all this spite” poem, featuring the line “Spite is wearing me as its skin”

• Oliver’s family-themed grocery store piece that may or may not involve a five-finger discount

• Allie Burke on fighting against their body and lapsed Christianity

• Isaiah with an excellent, extended (and very-Boston) metaphor about “Storrowing”

• Briana’s praise poem “Bless my tummy” and Zeke’s simultaneous ode to his mother and quilting

Feature

Our feature was the 2025 Boston Poetry Slam Team! Aside from the Team Selection Night, this annual tradition is always one of the punchiest and poignant nights of the year, as we get to hear all the polished individual and group pieces our team has been working on during one feature. You can re-watch the whole performance on our instagram page (and read the poems themselves in the team chapbook) but Amy, Myles, Jen, Kaitie, Aparna, and Ilse left everyone feeling inspired and proud of our scene. Group piece highlights include Jen and Amy’s stark piece on the danger of gossip, Myles’ innovative “Intrusive Ghazel” with multiple repetitive voices going on in the background while the poem was being read, and a surprise Pandora’s Box/crossword-themed piece by Aparna and Kaitie. We will have copies of the team chapbook (while they last) at our show the next few weeks, so be sure to pick them up while you can!

Coming Up This Wednesday

THIS WEDNESDAY 7/23 the Boston Poetry Slam presents our very first Community Night! The main event of the evening will be a series of featured poems selected and performed by members of our community. The first theme, “First Inspirations”, asks poets to bring covers of poems from the artists who have inspired them throughout their writing journey.

Please note this feature is covers of other poets, not a single poet feature. Want to take part in the event? Visit tinyurl.com/1STINSPOS to sign up!

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– MFG 🚪

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Cantab Recap For Wednesday, July 9th, 2025

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Open Mic Highlights

• Dedicated regular Cam S’s farewell love letter to the Cantab on the eve of his moving away from Boston. We’ll miss you Cam!

• Erica Garcia’s work poem “To The Person Who Steals The Magic Eraser” and the incredible inner monlogue turn that ended Ilse’s new piece about their mother

• A trio of DADS took the stage in a row on the open mic, including 2nd timer Greg M, who wrote a touching poem for their husband’s 40th anniversary, and the return of Aparna’s father Sanjay!

• Lauren’s “Random thoughts between 5:45 a.m. and 7 a.m.” that gained momentum and snappiness the closer it got to 7 a.m.

• The bitterness in Sue Savoy’s “I wish your name wasn’t on my tongue so often” turned into such beautiful poetry

• Ed’s breakup poem that ended with “love is the thing that knocks,” which promptly yours truly to knock on the microphone right before announcing the next poet

• The return of Briana Crockett to the mic after a bit of a hiatus, and Aparna’s “F word” poem that invoked their father (who was still in the room!)

Feature

The innovative and often-astounding Ilyus Evander was our feature this week, and they gave us a sneak condensed peek of their incredible poetry/theater show that will debuting this fall just outside Providence! We’ve been told not to spoil the surprises of the show beforehand, but the set did include a couple of Ilyus’ showstopping poems from recent tournaments (“Evidence of Absence vs Absence of Evidence,” performed to an empty stage) as well as a pre-taped narrator that transitioned the audience through each poem, and added some interactivity to the feature. Closing with a classic (“The three- headed hydra speaks”), Ilyus lefts us all aching to see the full production of the show! Make sure to check out their previous books, and we’ll post information on how to see the play as soon as we get it.

Coming Up This Wednesday

This Wednesday marks the close of the 2025 team season! Come welcome the BPS team back from NorthBeast and hear what they’ve been working on over the last 5 months. Myles, Ilse, Jennifer, Aparna, Kaitie, and Amy will perform for a FULL HOUR, so the mic will be slightly shorter — get there EARLY if you want to sign up. There will be some merch too for sale! Doors will be $6 instead of the usual $4 for this special event.

See you there!

– MFG 🚪

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2025 Northbeast Regional Poetry Slam & Festival Is This Weekend!

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This weekend, representatives from poetry venues across New England and beyond will be competing in the 3rd Annual NorthBeast Regional Poetry Festival at the Cambridge Foundry!

The NorthBeast Regional Poetry Festival is dedicated to assembling poets from New England and beyond to uplift each other’s voices. In NorthBeast’s main event, 16 teams will compete in a regional poetry slam!

But NorthBeast is so much more than a competition: it is an opportunity to bring the poetry community together in a weekend of growth and camaraderie. Attendees can look forward to participating in open mics, a community fair, and workshops taught by esteemed local poets.

Teams Participating In The Slam:

Boston Poetry Slam (Cambridge, MA)

Slam Free or Die (Manchester, NH)

ProvSlam (Providence, RI)

Mill City Speaks (Lowell, MA)

Slam Euphoria (Troy, NY)

Port Veritas (Portland, ME)

The Dirty Gerund (Worcester, MA)

Rockland Poets (Nyack, NY)

(Not) BuckSlam (Minneapolis, MN)

Land of Lakes (Minneapolis, MN)

Charm City Slam (Baltimore, MD)

Verbal Slap (Bridgeport, CT)

Mic’d Up Mass (Boston, MA)

Sonic Bloom (Pick Up Team)

Team SLG [Silly Lil’ Guys] (Pick Up Team)

Peaky Binders (Pick Up Team)

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

SATURDAY JULY 12

OPENING CEREMONY
11:30am in Multipurpose Room

FIRST PRELIMINARY SLAM
12:00pm in Multipurpose Room
featuring Mic’d Up Mass, Port Veritas, Rockland Poets, and Charm City Slam

SECOND PRELIMINARY SLAM
1:30pm in STEAM Set Theater
featuring Land o’ Lakes, Sonic Bloom, Peaky Binders, and (not) BuckSlam

THIRD PRELIMINARY SLAM
3:00pm in Multipurpose Room
featuring Mill City Speaks, ProvSlam, Slam Euphoria, and Dirty Gerund

FOURTH PRELIMINARY SLAM
4:30pm in STEAM Set Theater
featuring Verbal Slap, Boston Poetry Slam, Slam Free or Die, and Silly Lil’ Guys (SLG)

HAIKU NUPIC SLAM
7:00pm in Multipurpose Room (sign ups at 6:30pm)

SUNDAY JULY 13

COMMUNITY FAIR & CHAPBOOK EXCHANGE
12pm – 6pm in Main Hall

LIBERATION OPEN MIC
12pm in Multipurpose Room

WORKSHOP 1 – EKPHRASTIC REMIXING: SAMPLING POP CULTURE with Kenny Bradley
12 pm in The Point

WORKSHOP 2 – THE BODY SPEAKS with Ilyus Evander
1:30pm in Design Lab

WORKSHOP 3 – MOTHER EARTH IS WATCHING with Essmaa Litim
3pm in The Point

JUST (BE)LOVED OPEN MIC
3pm in Multipurpose Room

WORKSHOP 4 – ANTI-POEMS & OTHER HIJACKINGS with G/ج (George Abraham)
4:30pm in Design Lab

FINALS TEAM CHECK-IN
5:30pm in STEAM Set Theater

FINALS STAGE
6pm in STEAM Set Theater

Event Venue

The Cambridge Foundry
101 Rogers St., Cambridge, MA 02142

To learn more about the Foundry, its accessibility features, and directions, see our page with venue information.