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