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April Open Mic feat. Catherine Weiss

Online N/A, Portland

Join us for our April Open Mic! Sign ups will be available in the event 30 minutes before we start! You will have 3 minutes to read 1-2 poems. We will have a feature from Catherine Weiss! More about Catherine: Catherine Weiss (she/they) is a poet and artist from Maine. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Tinderbox, Up the Staircase, Fugue, Okay Donkey, perhappened, Bodega, Counterclock, Hobart After Dark, and Flypaper Lit. They were the 2017 Grand Slam Champion and the 2018 WOWPS rep of Northampton Poetry. Their debut full-length collection will be published by Game Over Books in 2021. You can find Catherine at most any New England agricultural fair — she’s the one admiring the blue ribbon hog, covered in…

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