Poetry in the Brew Online Open Mic Poetry Reading
Saturdays at 6 PM Central on Zoom
Happy Halloween! Pull those skeletons out of your closets, dig up the bodies in the backyard, gather your ghosts, brandish those broomsticks and polish up your linguistic tricks, it’s Poetry in the Boo! Be it spooky or campy or solemn, supernatural or the mundane macabre, bring us your Ravens, Jabberwockies, and Nightmares come to life through poetic craft. You are also welcome to treat us to poetry that is decidedly not on theme. Costumes are optional and encouraged.
Sign up to read on the open mic. The zoom session begins at 5:45 PM with 15 minutes of free chat. Reading starts at 6:00 PM. Each poet has 4 minutes to share their words. Practice reading or reciting before the show to check the length of your material. Please be respectful of time so everyone gets a turn.
If there is enough time after the first round, we will invoke a Snap Round. Snap Poems are under 1 minute each. Any short format works for Snap Poetry, including an excerpt of a longer poem.
Join us on zoom (session opens at 5:45 PM):
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87626762054
Thanks to our esteemed benefactor Jo for running the zoom.
Here’s a video of the Oct. 24 open mic, with poets performing from Australia, Canada, the UK, and across the States.
Cassidy Martin was raised all over Nashville. She has been writing since she was 12 and has had her nose stuck in a book all her life. She works at the Nashville Public Library and considers downtown her home. She attends Trevecca Nazarene University pursuing a degree in Communications but is open to other ideas. She likes creating visual and verbal art, but she only sings in the shower. With a mixture of natural leadership, religious optimism, heavy satire, and genuine sincerity, she lives life by pushing through the cracks of the sidewalk with open petals. She hopes to water her fellow humans with liquid courage and life experiences disguised as poetry.
Dominique, better known as Substance, fell in love with creating short poems and quotes at the age of 8. She has explored many writing forms but finds comfort in poetry with no genre or label. You’ll find that her poetry carries the energy and soul of a divine experience. Her mission is to embody the message flowing from her heart in hopes that it will resonate with another’s. Poetry introduced her to the Divine that resides within. Her poetry can be defined as a strong wind or ocean waves gently returning home to shore. 
I was born in Nashville, and raised in Columbia, Tennessee. I became inspired to write from the many things in life. Seeing environments that were just not right, I decided to use spoken words to send messages to change not only the environments, but people’s lives. I’ve been performing the art form known best as Spoken Word since 2015.
Andrew P. Dillon earned his BA from the University of Tennessee, and later graduated in their inaugural MFA class. He was awarded a scholarship to the Virginia Center for Creative Arts workshop in Auvillar, France, and has been nominated for the Best New Poets anthology and the Pushcart Prize. His work is forthcoming or has appeared most recently in Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, 
