Name Your Spoken Word Troupe

"Fenix Underground and Poetry Experience seek participants for 'With Breath as our Canvas,' an ongoing spoken word open mic. Open to all ages. Entry fee: optional donation. Every 1st & 3rd Sunday 7pm-9pm. INFO... 772-9084."--listed in the literature section of Artist Trust's website (www.artisttrust.org) under "Ongoing Opportunities"

In this spoken-word-happy town, where ongoing spoken word/open mic opportunities take place every night of the week (some are listed at the end of the readings calendar in this newspaper, space permitting), the hardest part about starting a new spoken word/open mic reading series here may simply be deciding what to call it. With Take a Poem Into Your Heart, It's About Time Reading Series, Verbal Tea, With Breath as Our Canvas, and other spoken word/open mic reading series titles spoken for, the following is a list of spoken word/open mic reading series potential titles that are, as of recent research, available for use:

With Chicken as Our Dinner

Poem Is Where the Heart Is Reading Series

Leaves of Wheat Grass

With Memories as Our House

With Mammaries as Our House

In the Stream of Cream Reading Series

The Ceiling of My Feeling Reading Series

When the Words Come Out

With Moans as Our Paper

I Know Why the Caged Word Sings

The Sound of Music in My Ear Hole

Me and What I Tried to Do

The Speech That We're Secreting Reading Series

This Growth and How It Feels When I Touch It Reading Series

The Scene That I Paint by Dancing with the Words That I Sing as I Smell Roses with My Heart Reading Series

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