Stay Home: Monday Feb 23
No Gerund this week due to weather. Please help us get this news to the few poets who are not chronically online. We will see you back at the mic next week!
Keep readingNo Gerund this week due to weather. Please help us get this news to the few poets who are not chronically online. We will see you back at the mic next week!
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Every Monday Night
WHERE: Ralph’s: 148 Grove, Worcester, MA
🎙️ Outside when weather allows, otherwise inside & down-to-the-right
🎙️ This is a 21+ cash only bar (there’s an ATM) built around a historic diner cart. Outside shows are accessible, inside shows have multiple sets of stairs, low lighting. Both have mixed seating types.
House Keeping: The open mic is a privilege that takes guts to perform on, so we ask you to be considerate of the space and performers.
Keep your phones on silent, and any conversations to a whisper, or over in the
diner cart/out of earshot. Some of our poets whisper and we want to hear them, not you
WHAT: it’s a fucking poetry show
🎙️ Open mic slots for first and second half, alongside a wait list, with a feature set in the middle. Don’t see room on the list? Talk to Nark and they’ll see what they can do.
🎙️ Read your work, tell your jokes, bear your soul, all while accompanied by the coolest backing band since the invention of Ray-Bans.
🎙️You get 1-2 poems or 1 song; up to 6 minutes tops. Please donate your extra time forward to the next performer.
🎙️ Most-sometimes there’s a bonus ruckus in the second half (you could win a ‘lil prize for a poem written on the spot) and most-sometimes there’s pre-show snack time (thank the dumpling-queen.)
No tickets are needed to attend a show. Instead, our house band has a song: Money in the Bucket! When they play and the bucket comes ’round, we ask you consider giving $2-7 tips to help pay our house band & feature performers.
Want to be a feature? Let us know!
TIP YOUR BARTENDER AND BRING YOUR EMPTIES BACK TO THE BAR ❤️
