Happy National Poetry Month, Cantabbers! While the CUPSI poets are away, the non-collegiate shall… Rack our brains over 30/30? Yes, most likely: tons of new work hit the open last night to celebrate the nation’s most traditional month to attempt writing thirty poems in thirty days. If you haven’t started your 30/30 project yet, no …
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Cantab Recap for Wednesday, February 10, 2016
We survived another Erotic Poetry Night, Cantabbers! Huge, girthy, well-lubricated thanks to our really remarkable open mic poets, who brought us the sexy while almost unanimously bringing accompanying agency, personality, consent, and very creative language to the stage. Also, y’all are awkward as heck and that sure is hot. Nice work, poets!
Extra-enthusiastic thanks also …
Cantab Feature for February 10, 2016: Erotic Poetry Night and the Schmaltz Slam
Gird your loins: it’s our annual Erotic Poetry Open Mic, featuring The Schmaltz Slam, a head-to-head poetry slam event between the Pick-Up Lines and the Valentines, produced by the diabolically moonlit Emily Carroll.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Official results from the second of our two heats of Team Selection Preliminaries have been tabulated!
The top six poets have qualified to move on to Semi-Finals on February 17:
1. Meaghan Ford 52.2
2. Zeke Russell 50.4
3. Quentin Lucas 49.3
4. Nora Meiners 48.7
5. Mckendy Fils-Aimé 48.6
Cantab Feature for Wednesday, January 20, 2016: Team Selection Preliminaries (Second Heat)
Second of two elimination slams featuring Ed Wilkinson, Emily O’Neill, Jess Riz, Manvir Singh, Mckendy Fils-Aimé, Meaghan Ford, Nora Meiners, Quentin Lucas, and Zeke Russell; hosted by two-time NPS Finalist Eirean Bradley. $5 cover tonight to raise funds to send the team to the 2016 National Poetry Slam in Georgia.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, October 7, 2015
This past Wednesday: we had a killer night at the Cantab with a fabulous spotlight feature and full feature combo! The illustrious Beck Cooper from New Orleans took the stage during our open mic for a bonus set of three poems to close our her short northeast visit; she sold out of books earlier in …
Moonlighting: A Queer Open Mic and Reading Series on Thursday, May 30, 2013, featuring Emily O’Neill and Friends
A special installment in our new monthly LGBTQ reading, Moonlighting! This is a fundraiser to help send Emily O’Neill to the Tin House workshop in Oregon: the five features include Emily, Sean Patrick Mulroy, Cassandra de Alba, Sophia Holtz, and Sam Teitel.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, October 31
Happy Halloween, everyone! Big thanks to all who came out to celebrate with us this year at the Dead Poets’ Slam. Our open mic was full of a great mix of live poets doing their own work, live poets doing dead poets’ work, and live poets covering each other. Neat! We enjoyed a few costumes …
Cantab Feature for Wednesday, August 8, 2012: Cassandra de Alba
Hampshire grad and Somerville resident Cassandra de Alba. Open poetry slam in the 8×8 series.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Folks, we have somehow survived another Erotic Poetry Night at the Cantab Lounge! It was another night of poets mixing the sensual with the slutty, subtlety with straight-up (or not) sex, and erotica with neurotica… Let’s just say we’re pretty sure Congress doesn’t have a panel to deal with ANY of the propositions we heard …
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