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Welcome to the schedule of poetry events happening in Massachusetts! This schedule contains events happening all over the state, as entered by our Poetry Partners and others. It is not limited to Mass Poetry events. To submit an event, click here. For more questions regarding our calendar, you can email marketing@masspoetry.org
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Thursday, June 1
 

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Thursday June 1, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EDT

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.
Thursday June 1, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EDT
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, October 30
 

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Poetry Show
Monday October 30, 2023 8:30pm - 11:59pm EDT

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.
Monday October 30, 2023 8:30pm - 11:59pm EDT
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, November 6
 

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday November 6, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST

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.
Monday November 6, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, November 13
 

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday November 13, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST

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.
Monday November 13, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, November 20
 

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday November 20, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST

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.
Monday November 20, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, November 27
 

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday November 27, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST

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.
Monday November 27, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, December 4
 

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday December 4, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST

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.
Monday December 4, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, December 11
 

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday December 11, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST

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.

Monday December 11, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, December 18
 

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday December 18, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST

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.
Monday December 18, 2023 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, January 8
 

8:00pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday January 8, 2024 8:00pm - 11:59pm EST

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.

Brieana Woodward’s a lifelong New England resident performing all around MA and the surrounding area, most recently headlining Nick's Comedy Stop in Boston and hosted for Sam Tallent at Laugh Boston, but she loves to tell jokes all across the continent, having checked off 31 states and a Canadian Province so far in her comedy travels. She won second in the 2022 Funniest Person in MA Contest. After seeing her perform at the Bellforge Arts Center, Vanyaland reported she “held court at our comedy festival, delivering one of the most violently funny and incendiary sets we’ve ever experienced.” Brieana's rapid fire punches, high-voltage energy, and raw talent are her dynamite recipe to blow away any audience!
Monday January 8, 2024 8:00pm - 11:59pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, January 15
 

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday January 15, 2024 8:30pm - 11:59pm EST

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.
Monday January 15, 2024 8:30pm - 11:59pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Saturday, January 20
 

9:00pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Poetry Series featuring Adam Stone
Saturday January 20, 2024 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST
Open mic followed by feature from Adam Stone.

21+, free admission, donations accepted.
Readers/Speakers
Saturday January 20, 2024 9:00pm - 10:00pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, January 22
 

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday January 22, 2024 8:30pm - 11:59pm EST

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.
Monday January 22, 2024 8:30pm - 11:59pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Saturday, January 27
 

8:30pm EST

Dirty Gerund Poetry Show ft. Lynne Schmidt
Saturday January 27, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST
Featured Poet: Lynn(e) Schmidt is the author of the poetry chapbooks, Gravity (Nightingale & Sparrow Press), On Becoming a Role Model ( Thirty West Publishing House, Spring 2020), and Dead Dog Poems (Bottlecap Press, Summer 2020). She is a mental health professional in Maine writing memoir, poetry, and young adult fiction. Her work has received the Maine Nonfiction Award, Editor's Choice Award, Honorable Mention for the Charles Bukowski Poetry Award, and was a 2018 and 2019 PNWA finalist for memoir and poetry respectively. When given the choice, Lynne prefers the company of her three dogs and one cat to humans. 

Bonus Ruckus: The return of the Holy Hot Sauce Sonnet Challenge! We'll bring an absurd hot sauce for you to shoot! Also some sonnets. Survive the dumbness and we'll reward you and stuff! 

The super talented Hal Gaucher is providing the visual arts!

Joy Pond is holding it DOWN on snacks! 

Music by Jacob Leevai and (hopefully) friends! 

21 plus
$2 to $5 suggested donation
Readers/Speakers
Saturday January 27, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, January 29
 

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday January 29, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST

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.
Monday January 29, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, February 5
 

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday February 5, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST

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.
Monday February 5, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, February 19
 

8:30pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday February 19, 2024 8:30pm - 11:59pm EST

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.
Monday February 19, 2024 8:30pm - 11:59pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, February 26
 

8:00pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday February 26, 2024 8:00pm - 11:59pm EST

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.
Monday February 26, 2024 8:00pm - 11:59pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, March 4
 

8:00pm EST

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday March 4, 2024 8:00pm - 11:59pm EST

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.
Monday March 4, 2024 8:00pm - 11:59pm EST
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, March 11
 

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday March 11, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EDT

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.
Monday March 11, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EDT
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, March 18
 

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday March 18, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EDT

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.
Monday March 18, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EDT
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, March 25
 

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday March 25, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EDT

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.
Monday March 25, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EDT
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, April 1
 

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday April 1, 2024 8:30pm - 9:30pm EDT

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.
Monday April 1, 2024 8:30pm - 9:30pm EDT
Ralph's Rock Diner
 
Monday, April 8
 

8:30pm EDT

The Dirty Gerund Open Mic & Poetry Show
Monday April 8, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EDT

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.
Monday April 8, 2024 8:30pm - 11:30pm EDT
Ralph's Rock Diner
 


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