Recaps from the Boston Poetry Slam @ the Cantab Lounge's weekly show.
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Open Mic Highlights 10/07
• Dan Malloy wrote about being descended from Salem witches, and how he owes his existence to the fact that one of them was not hanged at the stake
• Alia returned with a poem (“Grass that mirrors upon you, Birds”) that got …
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It’s been a long time coming for these recaps which were originally lost and are now found!
Open Mic Highlights 09/23
• “I’m living in an Edward Hopper world on the Red Line” – Dan Malloy
• “I might do the unthinkable and give care to …
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Hey all,
Our wordpress/publishing software is currently going through an update, so the recaps from the past two weeks should hopefully re-appear soon. Right now we can at least tell you about our upcoming show tonight!
Coming Up This Wednesday
This Wednesday we have an …
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Open Mic Highlights
• Your weekly wolf-themed poems update: Bailey (“Were you assigned democrat or republican at birth?”) is just 2 wolves in a trenchcoat, and is asking you if you would like to believe in an omnipotent/simulated wolf brain instead of a god
• Kyle on …
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Open Mic Highlights
• First off, a word of appreciation to our contingent from Worcester, Artemis (“We don’t restrict ourselves to Onlys”) and Bailey (“Sunlight making crowns across my body”) who have often been the first two people on our open mic the past couple months. Thanks for …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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