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Slamlandia Digital Open Mic ft. Angelique Palmer
September 30, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
FreeYou can access our Zoom link in advance. Here is the link to register: https://
Sign ups for the open mic will be posted at 6:30pm PT day of via Facebook posts and an Instagram story. Comment / reply to get your name on the list (you can also sign up via the chat function in the Zoom). Our open mic will begin at 7pm. Poets gets 3 minutes to share poetry – please do not go over time.
We will have a feature from Angelique Palmer.
Angelique Palmer (she/her) is a performance poet, a finalist in the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam, and a member of the 2017 Busboys and Poets/Beltway Poetry Slam Team. Author of The Chambermaid’s Style Guide, and the upcoming Also Dark (Etruscan Press), she’s a Florida State University Creative Writing graduate who calls northern Virginia home. Her work centers on Black Femme Narratives, Awkward Queerness, and Mental Health & Recovery. She makes her own ice cream.
Slamlandia is a poetry open mic and slam that meets every month. This mic provides a creative, fun, and welcoming space for all literary communities in Portland. We encourage poets new and old to come share their work. We strive towards a safer space for poets to read their own poetry, witness others, and participate in community.
Hosted by Julia Gaskill. September’s featured poet is Angelique Palmer (she/her).
Register in advance for this event
If you have any questions, please contact slamlandia@gmail.com or jessica@literary-arts.org.
Angelique Palmer is a competitive poetry doyen, member of the 2017 Beltway Poetry Slam Team, and a finalist in the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam.
The Creative Writing graduate from Florida State University now calls northern Virginia home. She’s penned 12 self-published chapbooks and authored THE CHAMBERMAID’S STYLE GUIDE, the full-length book of poetry on Sargent Press.
She was among 25 new members accepted to the 2015 A ROOM OF HER OWN writing retreat, and is a 2014 PINK DOOR WRITING RETREAT retreat alumna. In December 2017 she became a member of THE WATERING HOLE Graduate Fellows. Her publications include BORDERLINE, DRUNK IN A MIDNIGHT CHOIR, WUSGOOD?, and THE MUD SEASON REVIEW. She is the co-editor of BEECH STREET REVIEW, in her third year of instruction at FURIOUS FLOWER POETRY CENTER CREATIVITY CAMP and slam manager at THE BELTWAY POETRY SLAM.
She’s been the featured poet in cities across the U.S.
Formerly an instructor at the American Poetry Museum in Washington, DC, she continues to lead workshops, volunteer with spoken word-based charities. She makes her own ice cream, is learning more sushi and pescatarian lifestyles and can loom knit you a new life.
She’s pretty cool.