It’s been a tough week in the world, Cantabbers, and, once again, we are deeply relieved to have a community to come home to. Our open mic was thoughtful and extra-welcoming this week, and our feature, Brendan Constantine, really knocked it out of the park with a heartfelt, intelligent, funny, and impeccably performed set. If …
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Recaps from the Boston Poetry Slam @ the Cantab Lounge's weekly show.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, June 9, 2016
Our five-poetry-payday month continued last night with NOLA poet Desireé Dallagiacomo, who’s in town on a whirlwind New England tour. Desireé brought us some of the performance work that’s already earned her a top-three spot at every major national slam tournament, as well as some vulnerable new poems she was inspired to dare reading by …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, June 1, 2016
June is a five-Wednesday, month, Cantabbers: it’s like a month with an extra payday of poetry, just in time to get your summer started off right! Big ups to Matt Mason for kicking things off for us beautifully… Matt made us a quick pit-stop on the way to his next feature in Reykjavik, bringing us …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, May 25, 2016
If you missed last night’s breathtaking feature by Fatimah Asghar, you’ll be doubly sad to learn that her YesYes Books chapbook, After, is completely sold out. (Don’t worry, you can still read more of her new poems at her homepage.) Those of us who were there are doubly grateful that Adam finally got the air …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, May 28, 2016: Neiel Israel Wins the World Qualifier!
There can be only one, Cantab. Only one poet can represent the Boston Poetry Slam at the Individual World Poetry Slam in Flagstaff, Arizona, and our top-scoring poet of last night’s World Qualifier Final is…
1. WINNER: Neiel Israel
2. Runner-up: Mckendy Fils-Aimé
Eliminated after three rounds:
3. Bobby Crawford
4. …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Oh, we know: some of you have been waiting for all of 2016 for Anis Mojgani to come to the Cantab. And yes, we all held on through bitter cold, and driving rain, and that thing that happens on the first seventy-degree day where the heat turns on in the bar for some reason… And …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Wednesdays are the best, folks. What better way to spend Star Wars Day than by watching an epic battle of the most core representations of good and evil, presented through good poetry and… Actually, all the poetry was pretty good. A diabolical dozen slammers turned out last night for the season’s shortest epic: a two-round …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, April 28, 2016
Oh, National Poetry Month! We are sure gonna miss you… Like we are already missing Rose Smith, one of the rarest touring poets we’ve ever had the joy to book out of Columbus, Ohio. Rose started her set with an understated opening, drawing the crowd close to hang on her every printed word… And finished …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Happy April, Cantab. What a gift this month brings us: Ross Gay, our just-for-a-minute neighbor, presented to us from his award-winning book Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude –including the long-reaching title poem, a rare treat in our venue that so often holds us to three minutes. Truly, as excellent a feature as we could have hoped …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, April 13, 2016
It’s exactly the middle of National Poetry Month, folks, and we are just hitting our stride here at the Cantab. This week, Cassandra de Alba celebrated the release of her chapbook on Horse Less Press: habitats, with a jam-packed feature of one-minute poems. Did you miss your chance to buy the book? Nope, you totally …
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