Youth Slam! -- and Untitled Open Mic!
Tuesday, March 3, 6 to 9 pm
at Brew’d (61 Market Street, Lowell)

Featuring
Diannely Antigua
NYU MFA, UML Alum & Prize-Winning Poet!

PLUS Freeverse! Poetry Slam
CASH PRIZE: $50
Youth poets (ages 13 to 19) go head to head until the top scorer wins!

Spaces go to the first 6 poets to sign up, and they will go fast... If you're interested in competing, please send a message to douglasbishoppoet@gmail.com

Older than 19 or younger than 13? No slam? No Prob! Come and do your thing on the open mic! All styles, all orientations welcome…

As always, at Brew’d Awakening Coffehaus
(61 Market Street, Lowell, MA),
With all times approximate, as always…

6:00 Sign Up
6:30 Open Mic
7:30 Featured Poet
8:00 Youth Poetry Slam
9:00 All Done

About Our Featured Poet:
Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019) was the winner of the Pamet River Prize. She received her B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell where she won the Jack Kerouac Creative Writing Scholarship and received her MFA at NYU where she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. Her work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poems can be found in Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn.

For more information, visit https://diannelyantigua.com

/// Safer Space & Community Guidelines ///
We strive to foster a space of inclusivity and respect/ We ask everyone to leave (in no particular order): ableism, ageism, classism, fatphobia, homophobia, misogyny, misandry, racism, transphobia, and all oppressive language, attitudes, and actions at the door. We look to hold ourselves and one another accountable to creating a culture in which we treat each other with consent and respect. This includes but is not limited to respecting people's physical and emotional boundaries and receiving explicit verbal consent before touching someone or crossing other personal boundaries. If you are disrupting our safer space we will ask you to leave.

Please reach out to Ricky Orng or Douglas Bishop with questions regarding the open mic or slam.