#OPEN MIC POETRY

[getonthebside]

NOVEMBER ON THE B SIDE

As we approach the Holiday Season I am reminded of how quickly the time is flying and how many experiences I have had in this one year. I think about all the wins and losses for myself and for my friends. Only 7 more Mellow Dramatic Mondays to go this year. I hope you can make it out soon Register on Eventbrite Register on Eventbrite Register on Eventbrite Register on Eventbrite

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#bside #date night #Miami #OPEN MIC NIGHT #OPEN MIC POETRY #poetry #poets #spoken word #thesession

[weepylucifer]

it's beautiful to picture the anodic dance club as like, the new hot spot for the young people of martinaise to hang out and all bond with each other and have all their different worldviews mingle and create new things... but lbr chances are half of those people are going to end up just not really liking anodic music. like, thanks for keeping the pale hole contained or whatever but this music blows

#posts by me #it's just a genre like any other tbh. it's gonna have fans it's gonna have haters #the speedfreaks: here is our radical new life-affirming jam #cindy: it's a bit trash innit can you get some garage punk bands to play here #the smoker: can we host an open mic night i have slam poetry i would like to share #piss and fuck: this is not voidcore enough #steban: i only listen to prog rock #ulixes: and revolutionary folk anthems #andre and noid: everyone's a fucking critic huh #egghead: [sad ant with bindle image]

[poetryorchard]

🧚🏾‍♂️ Sprites of the Orchard! ✨ Join us in celebration of Disability Pride Month for our first open mic!

The theme is "disabled voices" - we're looking for poetry that reflects the experience of living as a disabled / neurodivergent person.

Disability is a self-defined and widely expansive identity, so please don't self-reject - we'd love to hear your poems!

Attendee sign-up

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#disabled #disability #disability pride #disability pride month #disabled artists #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #adhd #audhd #bpd #actuallybpd #writeblr #open mic #poetry #poetry tumblr #poets corner #writing tumblr #writing side of tumblr #neurodiverse artist #poets on tumblr #poetry community #disabled writers #invisible illness #chronically ill #chronic illness #fibromyalgia #chronic pain

[rustbeltjessie]

I'm going to be the featured performer at April's online Grassroots Open Mic. (Sunday, April 14, 6 pm Central Time.) It's free and open to anyone, and as previously mentioned, it's online, so you can watch and/or participate from anywhere in the world. More info available on their website.

#jessie lynn mcmains #poetry #spoken word #online event #open mic

[babylon-crashing]

Q: As a poet, which performance place do you like to recite your poems?

In the beginning ...

… it really came down to which location had the best acoustics, since more often than not you’re trying to perform while a dozen different background noises do their best to drown you out. Book shops (the photos on the left were taken at Schuler's Books) were better than cafes and their espresso machines that would make the most horrific noises every time someone ordered a coffee. The Milan train station, on the other hand, while having fabulous acoustics was a hopeless cause since the audience clearly didn’t come here to listen to a lisping American read poetry in English. They were more concerned about getting to their trains and I was simply one more obstacle in their way.

I would say that the most interesting place I’ve preformed, so far, is at the sacred temple, Garni, dating back to pre-Christian Armenia.

I don’t actually have a whole lot of photos of myself performing; partly because we didn’t have camera phones back in the 1980s and early 90s but mainly because the friend of mine who did bring his camera wherever he went has since passed on and I had other things on my mind besides asking, “I know you’re actively dying but could you get your hospice nurse to look around your office and see if you have any photos of me?” Whatever photos he did take have long since vanished from this earth.

… and yes, in the last photo this is what Alcohol Bloat looks like. It would be several years after this photo was taken in the Muskegon public library (again, great acoustics) before I started Recovery and AA.

#selfies #performance poetry #open mic #ars poetica

[stardustanddaffodils]

What makes a...?

Inspired by the poem 'Not Music' by Joe Hills

What makes a poem a poem? Perhaps it's the rhyme—but poems don't have to. Is it the figurative language, synchronizing sound and sincerity, tying together thought and tone— as anyother form of writing also does. It's surely the structure— But free verse forms its own foundation, and focusing on verse, it must be the verse— but prose poetry presently perpetuates popularly And songs have verses too and on that note— What separates a poem from a song? The presence of a melody Must be where sound shapes itself, surely, but isn't a piece that is only rhythm still music? And does poetry not measure up, does it not meet the meter, it does! So what is the difference between poem and prose song and sound sound and silence? Maybe there is none Maybe it's all just the same Conglomeration of human souls peeking out of the heart and into the air.

#poetrain #poetry #thought puddles #its been awhile since ive posted poetry !! yay hi #wrote this a few weeks ago performed it at an open mic and. now you guys can have it :)

[brechtian]

hey guys. do y’all wanna see a video of me reading Prometheus by lord Byron in the monet water lilies regency dress.

#thinking abt making it my new pinned. #I brought some dickinson poems to the poetry reading but then there was an open mic afterwards n I was like. well I might as well read #Prometheus too.

[wrongpublishing]

Author reading + open mic: Briar Ripley Page (16/09/23)

Also featuring:

Sera Miles

Alexandrine Ogundimu

Buy a copy of Traveler's Tales from Wrong Publishing:

#reading #author reading #author event #poetry reading #specfic #book reading #virtual reading #open mic #indie lit #small press #sci fi

[getonthebside]

HAPPY $3XTEMBER SOULCIALITES

Ok So This Month Is Not For The Saved & Sanctified. This Is For My GROWN & SEXY Open Minded Folk Who Wanna Come & Have A Good Time We Were Revolutionary Last Month & So It’s Only Fair That We Get A LIL Ratchet You See The Schedule Above No Work Tomorrow So Rest Up & Meet Me On The B Side Tomorrow Night Remember It’s Still Summer So The BSIDESOS Code Is Still Working Register on Eventbrite

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#bside #cunninglinguistics #labor day #LABOR DAY WEEKEND #Miami #open mic #OPEN MIC POETRY #poetry

[adventurerswritingguild]

Hark, Adventurers! @poetryorchard is excited to welcome the newly re-branded Adventurer's Writing Guild for a workshop celebrating the work of poets in community! Please join us for the first of four workshop held in collaboration between Poetry Orchard and the Adventurer's Writing Guild.

These workshops are especially open to those who have not attended a writing workshop before!

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#poetry #creative writing #writeblr #poetry orchard #writing workshops #workshop #workshops #open mic #writing prompts #poetry prompts #prompts #art prompts #writing resources #writing reference #writing community #poetry community #young poets #web weaving #<- i know this isnt a web weaving post but i think that ppl who web weave would LOOOVE these workshops bc theyre literally just us #web weaving in real time lmao #anyway #adventurersrwite #wlwocpoetrynet #wwnet #wearywriters

[poetryorchard]

Growing up, Studio Ghibli films were my greatest comfort and inspiration. If you are pondering how to appreciate small moments and romanticize life, it is my belief that Ghibli holds the answers! - Blossom 🍒

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#studio ghibli #ghibli #kiki's delivery service #whisper of the heart #poetry #spilled ink #poetry prompts #poetry inspo #writing inspo #writing prompts #writing reference #writing advice #workshop #poetry workshop #open mic #poetry community #writing community #creative writing #romanticize life #healing #recovery #wholesome

[on-wednesdays-we-eat-the-rich]

I wrote another cool poem :)

(I'm not telling you what this one's called because I think it's more effective if I leave it till the end to reveal what it's about)

Death omen.  That’s what they call me.  A grim reaper among birds.  I don’t complain.  My beak is my scythe,  My ink-feathered wings a sweeping cloak,  And I wear them with pride.  Their straw-headed man Standing like a crucifix amongst the corn Is a better symbol of death than I —  The image of Christ,  Still and silent as a corpse,  Staring blankly over his domain,  Made to scare me!  And yet I stand here Atop his sagging sacking head And I laugh, because It’ll take more than this Overgrown rag doll, Only able to stand Because of the broom-handle up his arse,  To keep me away from my treasure. 

A murder.  That’s what they call us.  As if we don’t have The highest respect for the dead.  My murder and I Chant our bothersome cry And they tell us to get lost.  Oh, if only they knew.  Today our song is a eulogy,  A lament for our fallen friend.  Don’t blame us If our voices aren’t like yours.  They can be like yours, if you like.  We are echoes as well as shadows And if you scream into the void You never know —  The void might scream back. 

We may not be larks Or nightingales —  We may be thieves and scavengers, and You may call us Harbingers of death, but You will never see a more dignified Death Than the crow.

#poetry #writing #i want to read this at the next open mic night #but reading it aloud won't have quite the same effect because of the capital D in Death at the end #which you won't know about if you just hear it! #but i'm sure the other poets there will enjoy it anyway #crows #crowcore #corvidcore

[beeboomachine-poems]

They say every cloud has a silver lining but the sun still needs to be out to see it (02/07/2020)

If I nested on the roof of a skyscraper

Would you forgive me?

Would you forgive me for abandoning you when you needed me most?

Would you forgive me for the pain of losing a friend?

Would you forgive me if you never saw me again?

And if you knew I was suffering

Would it make you feel better?

Would it make you feel better to know I’m living among the moon and the sun and the clouds, like I’ve always wanted?

Would it make you feel better if I never touched the ground again?

Would it make you feel better if you knew I missed you?

I’d send you a portrait

Of the birds that keep me company

The shapes and creatures in the clouds

The landscapes you can only know from being atop the tallest tree

Of the last memory I have of your eyes

What good is life if you never see the things you desperately crave?

What good is life if you’re stuck in a swamp of indecisions and heartache?

What good is life, here, on the ground, when the view could be so much greater?

Recorded: 11/8/23

#beeboo-writes #poetry #poem #original poem #i really like this one #i miss relating to it honestly #beeboo-speaks #that’s gonna be the tag for the open mics i do #Verbal Mayhem

[rustbeltjessie]

ICYMI: Last Sunday’s online open mic, wherein I was the featured poet, is now available to watch on YouTube!

#video #open mic #poetry #spoken word #jessie lynn mcmains #me on film #grassroots open mic

[dearduende]

poetry knocks on my door

and some days I’m too scared to answer it, it’s been too long since I’ve welcomed them in and I’m not sure what they might have to say what thoughts might come barreling in and if I’ll be able to hold it all, until I find myself sitting to write a poem about poetry tapping on my brain, somehow they find a way in.

some days, poetry knocks on my door and I’m not home to hear it at all too busy elsewhere, too distracted by work, too much running away or “living my life” or just barely managing the day to day to remember what poetry’s voice sounds like. a friend whose call I just keep missing after half hearted attempts to grab coffee to catch up or just send some text back— why is it so hard to stay in touch?

when poetry knocks at my door and I’m buried under my covers music blasting deep in hibernation mode I’m in no mood for house guests let alone one who shakes me to my bones but sometimes poetry sits patiently by my side, strokes my hair as I cry into theirs poetry holds me even when I try to hide.

I remember the days when poetry used to walk right in and make themselves at home at my dining table or even in bed how we’d go at it for hours on end and how easy it all had been sometimes I worry it might never feel the same way it used to be.

so tonight, when poetry knocked on my door not once but twice, I listened through the door and peeked through the hole knowing they weren’t going anywhere so I opened the door, said: sorry for the mess, it’s been a while, how have you been?

and here I am sitting with poetry again.

#writing #poetry #poem #words #poets on tumblr #new poets society #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #poets corner #poets of tumblr #poem about poetry #written by me #headed to an open mic yay

[cinader]

Poet Laureates and Publishing in the South

Martha Cinader speaks with Glenis Redmond and Anna Castro Spratt, the first Poet Laureate and Teen Poet Laureate of Greenville, SC and they also share some poetry. We also speak with Meg Reid, Executive Director of Hub City Publishing in Spartanburg, SC a

“I didn’t say I was right about things. I said I write about things.” –Oscar Peñaranda Glenis Redmond & Anna Castro Spratt, Poet laureates, Meg Reid, Hub City Publishing L&BH Podcast S2 Episode 5 – Poet Laureates and Publishing in the South Martha Cinader speaks with Glenis Redmond and Anna Castro Spratt, the first Poet Laureate and Teen Poet Laureate of Greenville, SC about how it happened…

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#Alavian Landrum #Anna Castro Spratt #Crystal Cauley #Fiction #Glenis Redmond #Greenville SC #Hendersonville NC #Hub City Publishing #Meg Reid #novels #open mic #Poet Laureate #Poetry #publishing #SC #Spartanburg SC #spoken word #Versers of Color #writer #writing