Cantab Feature for April 8, 2015: Karen Finneyfrock

Longtime Seattle performance poet and booming YA novelist Karen Finneyfrock.

Longtime Seattle performance poet and booming YA novelist Karen Finneyfrock.

Karen Finneyfrock is the author of two young adult novels: The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door and Starbird Murphy and the World Outside, both published by Viking Children’s Books. She is one of the editors of the poetry anthology Courage: Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls and the author of the full-length poetry collection Ceremony for the Choking Ghost, both released on Write Bloody press. She is a former Writer-in-Residence at Richard Hugo House in Seattle and teaches for Seattle Arts and Lectures’ Writers-in-the-Schools program. She has been on four National Poetry Slam teams representing Seattle and Washington, DC.

Note that tonight’s open poetry slam is a speed slam with 3-, 2-, and 1-minute rounds. Slam winners qualify for the 2015 World Qualifier.

This show in our weekly Wednesday series takes place at the Cantab Lounge, 738 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge. Doors for the show open at 7:15. The open mic begins at 8:00 and the feature performs at approximately 10:00. An open speed slam in the 8×8 series will follow. The show is 18+ (ID required) and the cover charge is $3.