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Open Mic Highlights
• The open mic was an open lovefest for our feature tonight, BPS staff member/2023 slam team member/everyone’s friend KAI WALLIN. Multiple members of our community (as well as Kai’s family and friends) showed up tonight on and offered tributes and poems inspired by Kai, …
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Hey folks! This is Myles with your week’s recap. Despite it being Halloweek, not many people celebrated Halloween on stage. (Maybe our RAT SLAM the previous Monday had something to do with it: we were Halloweened out! Keep your eyes peeled on our Instagram for another RAT SLAM in …
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Open Mic Highlights
• It was a night of quotable lines!
• “I’ve been answering the phone [for/as] my mother since I was ten years old” – Farah
• “I pooped over a colander for a month” – from Jayda’s poem about accidentally swallowing a coin …
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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 …
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Thanks to everyone who came out to the 2026 edition of NORTHBEAST this weekend! It was an incredible success. Congrats to Just Beloved for taking home the title, and to the BPS team for finishing in 4th!
Open Mic Highlights
• It was a night for …
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The 2026 NORTHBEAST REGIONAL POETRY SLAM AND FESTIVAL is this weekend, July 31 – August 2nd! Buy tickets HERE!
Open Mic Highlights 07/15
• “You do not have to be bitten by a Catholic Saint, you can be bitter by a non-Catholic Saint” – directions for applying …
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Open Mic Highlights 06/17
• There was World cup fever at the beginning of the mic! The Tartan Army from Scotland was in the house, and first-timer Bryan Bonner covered Robert Burns beautifully
• David Sherman’s letter-poem to the Cantab revealing his kinks, which are “talk to …
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Open Mic Highlights 05/27
• Lynette’s soup-themed sestina ruminating on how “your brain isn’t fully developed until 25”
• Aanchal’s evil dentist poem (yes, a lot of us were thinking of this as a foil to Kai’s sexy dentist poem!
• Shivank taking the well-worn “inside …
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Open Mic Highlights
• “A line of iambic pentameter is a line of iambic pentameter” – from Bobby’s triple sonnet
• Zeke’s poem about the gratitude of still being alive, and an update on his former desire to be a poet that other poets talk about
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NOTE: Tonight’s 05/06/26 show will be held at THE FOUNDRY, 101 ROGERS ST, Cambridge instead of the Cantab Lounge, due to a big concert happening there. Doors will be at 8 pm, Shortened open mic at 8:30, feature at 10 pm.
Open Mic Highlights 05/22
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