New Haven Free 2 Spit Marks 20 Years At The Mic On Friday, Free 2 Spit celebrated the completion of its 20th year holding down an open mic for New Haven’s spoken-word scene at the New Haven Peoples Center on Brian Slattery 11 Dec 2024 · 6 min read
Philadelphia Trump + Harris Debate = “Another Quarter At The Arcade” Presidential Debate National Constitution Center 525 Arch St. Philadelphia Sept. 10, 2024 While this year’s presidential nominees prepped for their only formal face-off inside Philly’s constitution center, cops, Lindo Yes 11 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Stanzas Dropped Amid 1st Degree Murder Dismissal Rally for Eddie Irizarry Center for Criminal Justice 1301 Filbert St. Philadelphia August 8, 2024 One year after Philadelphian Eddie Irizarry was killed by a cop through his car window, Lindo Yes 14 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
LA Who Took the Gothic from the Cookie Jar? AMERICAN GOTHIC READING Night Gallery Los Angeles July 25, 2024 The United States is definitely haunted. I mean, the whole country is built on an “Indian” graveyard. And it has Brandon Sward 30 Jul 2024 · 2 min read
Philadelphia Poet Slams U‑Arts Closing U‑Arts Closure Poetry Slam The Velvet Whip 11th and Vine St. Philadelphia June 16, 2024 In the aftermath of the historic University of the Arts abrupt announcement of imminent Lindo Yes 18 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Shelter From The Storm Lyrical Lifelines for Mental Health and Sobriety Living Arts of Tulsa May 25, 2024 In the Tulsa Arts District on a humid May evening, electric as a storm cloud and Jennie The Lloyd 2 Jun 2024 · 2 min read
Philadelphia Gumball Poems Remind Readers: You’re Not A Robot The Poetry Gumball Machine Project Museum for Art in Wood 141 N. 3rd St. Philadelphia April 27, 2024 “Tough love is being punched until you don’t cry — and crying Nora Grace-Flood 1 May 2024 · 6 min read
NYC Honey’s, Get Them Readwrite Lily Lady Presents Honey’s Brooklyn, NYC 3/12/2024 In writing this review, I’m struggling up front with where to put my focus. A six-person bill is quite K Hank Jost 13 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Freaky Teenage Foibles Flaunted For Laughs Mortified’s “Doomed Valentines” Show The New Parish Oakland Feb. 10, 2024 Ah, the foolishness of youth. Is the ability to laugh at your own adolescent follies evidence of your Robin Lapid 16 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Oklahoma Stories Brought Out Of The Shadows Live Lit Night Heirloom Rustic Ales Tulsa Jan. 25, 2024 If, like me, you sometimes harbor romantic fantasies about literary experiences that happen in dark, gritty, hole-in-the-wall venues (probably with Alicia Chesser 9 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
LA Reading Series Recipe: Sharp, Creamy, Fresh, Funky, Nutty CASUAL ENCOUNTERSZ Baert Gallery Los Angeles Jan. 17, 202 One day I googled how to create the perfect cheese board. I came across the following formula: something sharp, something creamy, Brandon Sward 19 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
LA Currant Jam, Customland, and the “Vagina Dream Cave” CURRANT JAM LAUNCH PARTY Frogtown Creative Los Angeles Jan. 6, 2024 On a crisp January evening, the sleepy backstreet that houses Frogtown Creative was abuzz. New and familiar faces in A.J. Brown 15 Jan 2024 · 2 min read
NYC Unheard Voices Find A Watering Hole Home Palace Reading Series The Palace Bar/ Greenpoint Palace Greenpoint, Brooklyn Nov. 21, 2023; ongoing Tuesday nights It’s the week of Thanksgiving and, by and large, the city is empty. K Hank Jost 27 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
NYC What Happens When An OG New York School Poet Walks Into A Basement The Segue Foundation Reading Series featuring Eileen Myles Artists Space Tribeca, NYC Nov. 18, 2023 Everything worth knowing about in NYC is tucked away in some nook or cranny. There’ K Hank Jost 21 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
LA Words Nerds, Scenesters Keep It Lit CASUAL ENCOUNTERSZ alt-lit reading No Moon LA Los Angeles Nov. 2, 2023 Strip poker with a blow-up doll, Minnesota meth murder, sub sex addiction, Jet Blue fuckups, a bloody foot Jack Skelley 15 Nov 2023 · 2 min read
NYC We Walked In As Strangers. We Left Together NYC Writer’s Circle Reading KGB Bar 85 E. 4th St., NYC Oct. 25, 2023 To quote featured poet Greer Gibney, as a gesture toward summary of Wednesday evening at K Hank Jost 27 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
NYC “The Rabbit Did Not Ask For This.” But We Did Dolan Morgan’s Chapbook Release Reading Black Spring Books Williamsburg, Brooklyn Oct. 13, 2023 Black Spring Books is famously situated in a building once occupied by the legendary Henry Miller K Hank Jost 17 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Rappers Meet Up With Poets To Pärlā Pärlā Creative Festival Presents: Open Mic Poetry & Hip-Hop Night Letterman’s Lounge Sept. 21, 2023 “Good poets talk about the loss. Great poets teach you how to win.” These Ryan Anderson 27 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
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