Recaps from the Boston Poetry Slam @ the Cantab Lounge's weekly show.
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Open Mic Highlights
It was one of those weeks where I (Michael F. Gill) wrote a haiku about each poem on the open mic, and then read them all at the end of the open mic! Here they all are:
Bailey
i’m a mummy
with iridescent scales—
god has a sense of humor
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Open Mic Highlights
• Edie inadvertently (or was it advertently) re-started his Brockton vs Chicago feud with Amy by reprising his “5 outlandish facts about Brockton” poem about how Brockton is the *true* Windy city. Amy, for what its worth, responded for a second time with a great new poem written …
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Open Mic Highlights
• Shawn welcomed the ire and heckles of the audience by performing “Golden Silence” to start off the open mic. You guessed it, it was a silent poem! Some of the heckles included “What makes it golden?” “John Cage?” and “Is this freak shit or thin ice?”
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Open Mic Highlights
• Edward Gault’s magical realism tale of “The Sink That Ate Hyde Park”, filled with nightmares of dirty dishes howling at him, potential radiation poisoning, and jail time instead of getting the key to the city
• “I want someone to find me in the place where …
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Open Mic Highlights
• One of our 2026 Northbeast workshop leaders Leticia opened up the mic with a piece melding locust plagues with human intimacy and physical touch
• We had a lot of first and second timers on the mic this week! Shout out to Austin, Len (“Things that …
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Thanks to everyone who came out to the 2026 edition of NORTHBEAST this weekend! It was an incredible success. Congrats to Just Beloved for taking home the title, and to the BPS team for finishing in 4th!
Open Mic Highlights
• It was a night for the freaky poets! We …
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The 2026 NORTHBEAST REGIONAL POETRY SLAM AND FESTIVAL is this weekend, July 31 – August 2nd! Buy tickets HERE!
Open Mic Highlights 07/15
• “You do not have to be bitten by a Catholic Saint, you can be bitter by a non-Catholic Saint” – directions for applying to an experiment run …
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Open Mic Highlights
• Emma’s wild and ragged “Forced Femme Uncle Sam” which is just what you think it was about, and appropriate for July 4th…
• “We stood there waiting for someone to make the next move” – Gel’s description/conundrum about continuing to be in love / in a …
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Open Mic Highlights
• Ave Maria opened the mic off with a memorized and well-crafted piece about honey, despair, and pulling oneself back from the ledge
• River’s ode to bathroom graffiti and the unhinged “conversations” that happen on stalls (PS the Cantab bathroom graffiti is great!)
• What I …
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Open Mic Highlights 06/17
• There was World cup fever at the beginning of the mic! The Tartan Army from Scotland was in the house, and first-timer Bryan Bonner covered Robert Burns beautifully
• David Sherman’s letter-poem to the Cantab revealing his kinks, which are “talk to me in the subjunctive …
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