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Open Mic Highlights 10/07
• Dan Malloy wrote about being descended from Salem witches, and how he owes his existence to the fact that one of them was not hanged at the stake
• Alia returned with a poem (“Grass that mirrors upon you, Birds”) that got …
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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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Open Mic Highlights
• Edie inadvertently (or was it advertently) re-started his Brockton vs Chicago feud with Amy by reprising his “5 outlandish facts about Brockton” poem about how Brockton is the *true* Windy city. Amy, for what its worth, responded for a second time with a great …
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Open Mic Highlights
• Edward Gault’s magical realism tale of “The Sink That Ate Hyde Park”, filled with nightmares of dirty dishes howling at him, potential radiation poisoning, and jail time instead of getting the key to the city
• “I want someone to find me …
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Open Mic Highlights
• Ave Maria opened the mic off with a memorized and well-crafted piece about honey, despair, and pulling oneself back from the ledge
• River’s ode to bathroom graffiti and the unhinged “conversations” that happen on stalls (PS the Cantab bathroom graffiti is …
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Open Mic Highlights
• Shout out to the large group of newcomers who signed up early on the mic this week, including 2nd-timer Shy and Sydney from West Tennessee, and Alyna from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Some unexpected onomatopoeia, whispering, singing, and other dynamic “Freak shit” (© …
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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 …
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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 …
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• 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
• …
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We had a great time at the Middlesex Lounge this week hosting our open mic and video feature! This Wednesday we are back in the Cantab Lounge basement.
Open Mic Highlights
• Ty covering Harry Baker’s extremely alliterative poem “Paper People”
• Edie’s response …
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