Tag: Bobby Crawford

BPS Recap For Wednesday, March 4th, 2026

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Open Mic Highlights

• 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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BPS Recap For Wednesday, February 25th, 2026

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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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BPS Recap For Wednesday, February 4th & February 11th, 2026

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Open Mic Highlights

02/04/26

• Bobby’s C riffed on gatekeepers and Harold Bloom’s out-of-touch remark that “Poetry slam is the death of art”

• Emmanuel’s “Standing in front of a mirror trying to know what love is”

• Nick Roberts’ “My Curated Pandemonium” and “Lament Of The Finnish Bird Seller”

• …

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BPS Recap For Wednesday, January 21th & January 28th, 2026

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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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BPS Recap For Wednesday, January 14th, 2026

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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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BPS Recap For Wednesday, November 19th & 26th, 2025

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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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BPS Recap For Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025

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Open Mic Highlights

• The return of old slam team member Bobby Crawford, who found parallels to the traditional bouquet toss at weddings at a funeral when an uncle fell into an open grave

• Great first-timer poems from Megash, Dyre, Auden, and Madison

• Sue Savoy writing candidly about …

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Cantab Recap for Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Cantabbers! Elbow bumps and hygienic waves to everyone who came out last night for a warm and supportive night. A half-dozen early birds perched expectantly on chairs for torrin a. greathouse to workshop the unreliable narrator: and boy-o, did she come through with a wonderful series of prompts and guidelines. This poet was only in …

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Cantab Recap for Wednesday, March 28 / Grudge Match Recap

What a week, Cantabbers! First, our Wednesday kicked off big with a sold-out crowd for returning favorite Bobby Crawford, who presented a tight set with all the roller-coaster work-life heartbreak we’d dreamed of. The speed slam was an exciting five-poet affair, welcoming runner-up Kenny Piña on his first night at the show, with Evan Jymaal …

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The Boston Poetry Slam and the House Slam Present: THE GRUDGE MATCH, March 29, 2018

The House Slam takes on the Boston Poetry Slam for the fourth year running. Banner by Emily Carroll, photos courtesy Marshall Goff and Rich Beaubien.

Special THURSDAY show at OBERON in Harvard Square! Poets from the Boston Poetry Slam take on opponents from the House Slam across the river, featuring a cast of all-star poets, special guests, and celebrity judges. Tickets $10-$15, advance purchase recommended.