Boston Poetry Slam ft. Matthew E Henry

When:
Wednesday, Sep 20, 2023 6:30p -
9:00p

Where:
Starlight Square
84 Bishop Allen Drive LOT #5
Cambridge, MA

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Meetup

Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-poetry-slam-ft-matthew-e-henry-tickets-720412572397?aff=oddtdtcreator

This week's show features Matthew E Henry in collaboration with Starlight Square. Doors 6:30 pm / open mic 7 pm / feature 8:30 pm.


The mission of the Boston Poetry Slam is to foster new work and new voices in performance poetry, to drive the evolution of the genre, and to promote poetry to the widest and most diverse audience possible. Every Wednesday night since 1992.


Feature bio: Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is the author of full-length collections the Colored page (Sundress Publications, 2022) and The Third Renunciation (NYQ Books, 2023), as well as the chapbooks Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020), Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020), and have you heard the one about…? (Ghost City Press, 2023). He also has a collection forthcoming from Harbor Editions. He is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal and an associate poetry editor at Pidgeonholes. MEH’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in Cola, The Florida Review, Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, Pangyrus, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and The Worcester Review among others. MEH’s an educator who received his MFA yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. You can find him at www.MEHPoeting.com writing about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground.



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