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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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 Feature for Wednesday, December 18: David Winter and the Sestina Slam
Once-upon-a-time regular David Winter. SESTINA SLAM: an open slam in the 8×8 series requiring sestinas from all participants.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, October 30
This past Wednesday, the whole Cantab– both floors– paid a sweet tribute to a heartily missed regular, the late Jack McCarthy. Upstairs, the blues jam took a back seat to the Red Sox’s first home-field World Series game 6 since 1918; downstairs, after a thoughtful open mic, four teams took the stage for a slam …
Cantab Feature for Wednesday, October 30: Jack McCarthy Memorial Slam
Sober October show: a selection of local all-stars will present the work of one of the country’s most beloved performance poets, the late Jack McCarthy. Confirmed performers include: Kemi Alabi, Brian Comiskey, Caroline Harvey, Tom Slavin, and many more.
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, October 23
Last night, Omaha poet Andrew Ek knocked it out of the park at the Cantab. If you missed his series of perceptive, poignant, and scientific stories, you may be out of luck: this was his one and only show on his trip to New England! He’ll be in Manchester on the open mic tonight, but …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, September 25
It’s a special treat when we can get a busy working mom to come all the way from New York City to feature for us on a Wednesday night… So it’s a double-special red-letter day when we get TWO of them at once! Nuyorican all-stars Falu and Mahogany L. Browne, pillars of the Nuyorican poetry …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, September 4
It’s back to school time at the Cantab, folks! By which we mean we stayed out late at a bar on a Wednesday night just like we do every other week of the year… Except this time we got schooled by Jeremy Radin, West Coast actor, poet, and Write Bloody author of Slow Dance with …
Cantab Recap for Wednesday, February 6
Whoa, semi-finals! It was a super-hot room at the Cantab last night, folks, as thirteen of our top slammers faced off to see who would secure the coveted nine spots at the upcoming Team Selection Finals in March. After two rounds of slam, much of it filled with brand-new work from our performers, the field …
Cantab Feature for Wednesday, February 6: Team Selection Semi-Finals
Night two of the Cantab’s famed Team Selection Slams. The top twelve poets from Preliminaries are cut to nine in this two-round slam. $5 cover tonight to raise funds for the 2013 National Poetry Slam.
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