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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 the queer-coded and homoeroticism …
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• 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 opening our show …
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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 05/13
• Bailey’s cover of Pigeon’s poem about adopting both a Pokémon-themed version of health insurance and a Pokémon-themed version of socialism
• Shivank added another entry in the long line of open mic poems where a horse starts talking (…but does it walk into a bar?)
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• Bailey and Artemis led off the open mic with love poems to each other, warming everyone’s hearts and inciting the ire of our apparently anti-love host Myles Taylor (full disclosure: they met before coming to the Cantab)
• “My sister’s pain is empty eggshells” – Edie writing …
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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
12/30/25
• Our regular Worcester contingent had Bailey rattling off several sonnets in 3 minutes, and the actual/bonus last time on the mic from Ember before they move out of town!
• “[My father’s anger] is an expensive palette / more silence than I can afford to swallow” …
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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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FYI: Our show this Wednesday 5/14 is at Pandemonium Books, located at 4 Pleasant St in Cambridge, one block from the Cantab lounge. This is an all ages show!
It was another unique night at the Cantab this past Wednesday, with a batch of new regulars on the mic, and a …
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