Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar 2

The third annual Authors and Artists Festival: Writing the Land is a celebration of the intersection of poetry with social- and ecological-justice, online February 26-27, 2022. All-BIPOC headline speakers include Saturday: Jillian Hishaw, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, John Francis; Sunday: Ross Gay, Rahawa Haile, and Latria Graham. Poets from the Writing the Land project www.writingtheland.org will read including Cheryl Savageau, JuPong Lin, David Crews, Angie Vasquez, Alice B. Fogel, Paul Richmond and many others. Please also see our online poet retreat Healing Ourselves, Healing the Planet Feb 25-27, 2022; and our free reading group meeting monthly. Entrance to the festival is free.

Details at: https://www.nature-culture.net/authors-artists-festival

RLynn is a bartender, visual artist, and poet living in Boston. They’re a Pink Door alumnus, with work in Cosmonauts Ave., maps for teeth, and The Shallow Ends. You can follow them on Instagram.

This show in our weekly Wednesday series takes place at the Cantab Lounge, 738 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge, with one flight of stairs to access the basement room (click for directions and accessibility information). Doors for the show open at 7:15. The open mic begins at 8:00 and the feature performs at approximately 10:00. The show is 18+ (ID required) and the cover charge is $3.

Read your work, tell your jokes, bear your soul, all while accompanied by the coolest backing band since the invention of Ray-Bans. Sometimes there's snacks. Usually there are featured readers, local heroes and nationally ranked performance geniuses alike.