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POETRY READING Featuring Amy Alvarez and Linda Carney-Goodrich Amy M. Alvarez is the author of the poetry collection Makeshift Altar (2024) and the co-editor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology(2023). Selected as one of 2022’s Best New Poets, her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry Foundation, Colorado Review, and […]
2nd Thursday Poetry Reading with George Kalogeris, Grace Massey, Lloyd Schwartz, Mark Walsh This free poetry reading at the MAC will have an Open Mic before the featured speakers. Refreshments will be served. **Please note that with four featured readers we will need to limit the number of speakers at the Open Mic to 10. […]
NEPC @ The Menino: Jean Flanagan, Kevin Carey, Colleen Michaels Join the New England Poetry Club on May 10, as we return to the Menino Arts Center, in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood. Our featured poets will be Jean Flanagan, Colleen Michaels, and Kevin Carey, with an open mic will follow. The Menino Arts Center is […]
Calling all artists, entrepreneurs, poets, and dreamers — this one’s for YOU! Join us Friday, May 23rd for a night that blends connection, creativity, and community like never before here at ZaZ Social in Hyde Park! 📍6–8PM – Artistic & Entrepreneurial Bingo Get to know your community, complete your bingo card, and win a raffle […]
Thrilled to feature poet, storyteller, and historian Dean Lampros at the next open mic night at The Switch, Wed, May 28, 7pm. All you singers, comedians, poets, musicians and story tellers, come on down and get on the mic.
Celebrate Haitian Heritage Month with us! Event features Jean-Dany Joachim and an open mic. This a tribute to poet Danielle Legros Georges Presented by Trilingual Press & Artists-at-Large in association with HAAM About Jean Dany Joachim, Cambridge Poet Populist from 2009 to 2011, and the current Poet in Residence at First Church in Cambridge, is […]
This free poetry reading at the MAC will have an Open Mic before the featured speakers. Refreshments will be served. Melinda Coppola penned her first poem—about the color pink—at the tender age of 8. Her relationship with writing was mercurial for decades, but once she learned that her blood type is, in fact, poet, she […]
Don’t miss Open Mic at The Switch, Wed. June, 25, 7-9pm. Poets, singers, comedians, storytellers, musicians, all are welcome to share something on the mic or just listen. We will also be featuring the wonderful Queen Hodge whose poems and parodies are guaranteed to make you smile.
Welcome to Boston Open Mic is a fundraising event sponsored by Saafyr (Gems & Jewels), Boston Black Pride, & City of Boston Arts & Culture.Reseve your spot for free! Purchase tickets before the event starts!Early Bird: $15Door Ticket: $25This is not an official entry ticket. Your ticket must be purchased on Boston Black Pride Website. […]
Join us for Open Mic at The Switch, hosted by Linda Carney-Goodrich, on Wednesday, July 23rd from 7–9PM at 21 Fairmount Ave, Hyde Park. This free event welcomes poets, musicians, storytellers, and more! Featuring special guests Poet and Artist Vivienne Shalom and Poet and Novelist Timothy Gager. All are welcome — come share your voice […]
Poets, Musicians, Storytellers, and More Hosted by Linda Carney-Goodrich FEATURING Poet Maureen McElroy Poet Brian Mosher WEDNESDAY September 24th 7PM to 9PM 21 Fairmount Ave Hyde Park FREE and Open to ALL
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 7 – 9 pm Featuring Navah The Buddaphliii, Eddy Toussaint Tontongi Navah The Buddaphliii is a distinguished poet, performer, and author with over 20 years of experience in the literary arts. Known for her mastery of metaphor, she redefined herself as Navah the Buddaphliii —pronounced “butterfly”—a name that reflects her deep […]
Featuring M.P. Carver and Jennifer Jean M.P. Carver is a poet and visual artist from Salem, MA. She is Director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, miCrO-Founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag, a member of the Thursday Poets, and teaches writing at Salem State University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in SWIMM, […]
Please join us for our annual reading, featuring Winners and Finalists from our contests: Samuel Washington Allen Prize for a long poem or poem sequence E.E. Cummings Prize, for a compelling, lyrical, or experimental short poem Amy Lowell Prize, for an outstanding poem of any length or style by a poet with strong ties to […]
NIXES MATE at the MAC Sunday, November 23, 2-5 pm The authors will be reading from their work. Annie Pluto will read prose poems by Jennifer Martelli, co-author of Revere Beach Stories. Snacks and refreshments. Free to the public and accessible. EILEEN CLEARY AUTHOR OF WILD PACK OF THE LIVING LINDA CARNEY-GOODRICH AUTHOR OF DOT […]
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