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Open Mic Highlights
• Eri’s “If I had to f*%k one of the four horseman…”
• Bailey’s fourth-wall breaking poem including lines like “Whatever happens between us we need to still be able to go to the poetry show”
• Noel’s pastorally lush and lyrical ode to a specific tree in …
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Open Mic Highlights
01/21/26
• Tyrone’s short and wild ode to flying toilet paper that took a lot of detours within one minuted
• Apologies to Artemis if this does not describe their poem appropriately, but I have written down “gay sex set to the sound of protests” in my notes …
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Open Mic Highlights
• Mary’s Heated Rivalry poem and “I have no one I can give my power to who can also protect it”
• Jennifer’s “Confession of An Emotional Intelligent Avoidant” (great title / relatable!)
• Ember wasn’t supposed to be in town but got to say goodbye for a …
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Michael: We are jamming two recaps into one during this Thanksgiving holiday season!
Open Mic Highlights 11/19
• Kamran surprised his wife (who was in the audience) by covering “Wedding Song” by Bob Dylan. (“Straight men take notes!” – Myles, who was hosting after Kamran left the stage)
• “The …
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Note: Tonight’s show (11/19) will start a little later than usual (8:15-8:30), due to the secret music show happening upstairs at the Cantab! While we wait to start, we plan on having a little writing workshop based on lines of poetry gathered by our staff!
Open Mic Highlights
• Bailey’s …
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Open Mic Highlights
• In our new “staff sacrifice” that now begins our open mic, Amy spontaneously wrote a golden shovel about a comment in Myles opening spiel regarding “America’s next great top talent”
• River’s “Poem In Which I Remove Myself”
• Jake’s wild piece about how chewing is a …
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Open Mic Highlights
• Ren’s poem examining the Chinese greeting of “Have you eaten yet?”
• “Unrequited Love is Like Organized Religion” – Mica Rich on the unreachable and promises people make to us
• “Don’t talk to me, I need time for my sublunar calculations” – Charlie R
• “I …
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Open Mic Highlights
• Mary’s poem about writing a commissioned song for a 7-year-old kid named Paulie that turned out to be a scam, and how the idea of Paulie lived on
• Ember’s poem re: the FBI’s claim to categorize trans people as “violent extremists”
• Kelsey’s new piece …
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Open Mic Highlights
• Dave Mingolla’s poem about “quietly interrogating the universe until it speaks”
• First timer Rob M with a short and surprising poem about ladybugs
• The open mic debut of recent BPS feature Kelsey Bigelow, on the road from Iowa
• Donovan’s tribute to Andrea Gibson and …
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Hi Cantab! It was a hot one last Wednesday, and I’m not just talking about the fire poetry we heard. It was the middle of a heat wave, causing some unusual circumstances for our show. Due to The …
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