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Hey Cantab!! What a Wednesday! We had a very smooth night, with regulars doing their regular irregularly fantastic work, such as an incredible blackout poem from Siraj from a job rejection email. We also had a fabulous impassioned memorized debut from Rein Carnation, as well as a string of other debuts like Alia (performing a poem in Greek!) and Victor. Sarah (don’t forget the exclamation points!!) read a beautiful poem on heartbreak, Mary read a poem she wrote in second grade (the ending will surprise you), Oliver read some fire work about the Cuyahoga catching fire, Kaitie D debuted some straight-from-the-bar new shit, we had a (Ben) Tolkin/Tolkien crossover, and the return of Edie’s sensational throwing-bricks poem (that’s how I refer to it in my head) about revolution and taking back power.
The ✏️Line of the Wednesday✏️is from Kaitie D. “Finding love means having to be brave enough to lose it”
Then, we had our wonderful feature, DUY ĐOÀN (pronounced zwē dwän / zwee dwahn) who came all the way from Vietnam to read for us and provide us with work from his books “We Play a Game” and “Zombie Vomit Mad Libs”. His poetry was a tour-de-force in incorporating multiple languages in a poem, as well as topically how language can impact one’s perception. One of the finale pieces was a poem that was read in Vietnamese by Duy, echoed by the English translation provided by his friend and local poet Judson Evans. Overall, his poems contained humor, some audience participation (i.e. mad libs), and some weaved-in storytelling that captivated the audience with each word.
TONIGHT! Try out for the 2025 Boston Poetry Slam Team! The top two placements in each open slam are qualified for team selection next year. Standard slam rules apply: eight poets compete in three rounds with poems that are three minutes or less. No props, costumes, or musical accompaniment. Poems are scored by random members of the audience! Come compete among the best in the region.
– Amy ✈️
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