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Slamlandia Poetry Open Mic ft. Eric Sirota
May 21, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
FreeWe are pleased to announce that Slamlandia will be hosting another digital poetry open mic this month – with a feature from Eric Sirota!
This open mic – only poetry, no music please – will take place on May 21st. We’ll be hosting this event with the help of Literary Arts.
You can access our Zoom link here: https://literary-arts.org/event/literary-arts-online-slamlandia-may-21/
Sign ups for the open mic will be posted at 6:30pm day of via Facebook posts and an Instagram story. Comment / reply to get your name on the list. Open mic will promptly begin at 7pm.
Poets gets 3 minutes to share poetry – please do not go over time! If poets are late comers and join the chat after it’s well in session, they can use the chat function of Zoom to request signing up on the list, though a spot at that point will not be guaranteed.
We will be having a feature from the wonderful Eric Sirota!
Rota is a poet and public interest lawyer living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His work has been featured by Button Poetry, Entropy!, FreezeRay Poetry, Alternating Current (February 2020), Jet Fuel Review, and elsewhere. He is a proud member of the MMPR collective and the Assistant Executive Editor of Knights’ Library Magazine. By day, he supervises law students who provide free legal services to veterans. You can’t miss him. He’s the tallest Jew for miles. Twitter handle: @TheMCRota – find his work at www.soundcloud.com/mcrota and at www.wildpressedbooks.com/rota
A quick run down of Zoom: click the link we’ve shared, register, and that will give you access to the Zoom chat space on the 21st. During the show the host will keep everyone except the person currently reading muted – and then will unmute everyone for 5 seconds after poems are over for everyone to cheer.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!
We look forward to seeing your faces on all our laptops this Thursday evening! See you then!