Fun statistical fact, Cantab web friends: pageviews on our last Wednesday’s show, the Team Slam Preliminaries, surpassed stats for anything we posted in all of 2013! Okay, maybe our 21 competitors were just reloading the page twenty-five times that day to see if the field had gotten easier, but if you were at the slam, …
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Recaps from the Boston Poetry Slam @ the Cantab Lounge's weekly show.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Of all the places to have been this past Wednesday night, we can think of none better than the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge. If you missed the sold-out show, it probably sounds to you like we are just bragging, but it was a truly excellent night for poetry. An open mic with …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Is it still 2014, Cantabbers? Good news: from our poetry perspective, this year is awesome so far! We had a fun-sized open mic last night with a good group of solid newcomers, plus a great selection of folks returning from winter break, regulars trying out a new voice for 2014, and a few long-distance travelers …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Before you ask, folks… Yes, tonight’s Moonlighting show is on, but our venue has changed! Please see the info at the bottom of this post for more details.
Happy New Year, Boston Poetry Slam fans! Thanks so much to everyone who came out to celebrate with us and Stevie Edwards, a truly lovely performer, poet, …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Cantabbers, for the last Wednesday show of the year, we were super-proud to bring you a feature from a not-so-long-ago local favorite, David Winter. Now a resident of New York City, David returned home for the season and brought us the impeccably crafted, carefully delivered poems that have always landed so beautifully in our listening …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Sure, maybe Radio Boston told you all Suzi Q. Smith was going to be a great feature, but we at the Boston Poetry Slam are especially glad to see how many investigative folks trekked out to our basement on a cold night to see for themselves! As predicted, Suzi rocked the mic, opened some eyes, …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, December 4, 2014
So it turns out that if every person who said they’d been inspired by Nora Meiners wrote a poem about it, we’d have a two-hour open mic every Wednesday… Yeah, that’s right: Wednesday’s open was a glorious layering of connections missed and made, stories from the newspaper’s back pages, and a pretty sweet love-fest all …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Happy National Day of Matthew Richards, everybody! No, seriously: the joy you get from a Matthew Richards feature should justify an annual event. This beloved local took his kind heart, sharp wit, and well-crafted work to the stage for a crowd that was thrilled to welcome him. We don’t see Matthew at the Cantab as …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, November 20, 2014
If you hadn’t heard of Craig Nelson or the Northampton Poetry show before last night, your life has now changed for the better! This once-upon-a-time Boston Poetry Slam host shook off a decade of dust right in front of us and took the sold-out room on a wild ride to Paris, the Grand Canyon, and, …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Oh, you just knew it was going to be crazy in the Cantab on the first near-winter night of the year. The house was packed early with folks hoping to get a good seat for the feature… Which meant the open mic was packed with hard-working, sweet-talking folks, including a couple of wonderfully performed covers, …
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