lay your WORD΅down! poetry open mike with Lauren Carter

Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 7:30pm

The Human Bean
80 King Street West
Cobourg, ON

lay your WORD΅down! poetry open mike

7:30 p.m. - doors open 7 p.m.

> The Human Bean <
80 King Street West
downtown Cobourg
Ontario, Canada

FREE Admission

We are back! And we are here to stay. Over the Summer, we held 3 poetry open mike events (June 6, July 1 & August 1). The Human Bean agreed to host these as an experiment. Before the experiment began, the plan was:
*IF* the first 3 were a success, we would make this a monthly event for the next year.

They were successful. So, we are going to do this each month until August, 2014 (at least). While you are marking the October 3 date on your calendar-tracking-device --whether it is made of paper and hangs on the wall or makes phone calls and snaps photographs-- put in the dates for the rest of 2013, too:
Thursday, November 7
Thursday, December 5

"What happens at this poetry open mike?"

she reads, we listen, then
you read, we listen, then
we read, you listen, then
he reads, we listen, by the end
we all get to hear a buncha people's
POETRY, spoken word, POETRY, spoken word, POETRY

Come out.
Join our audience.
We will brave the microphone.
You should, too.

We thirst to hear you
read poetry, recite poetry, perform poetry, speak poetry

Thursday, October 3, we will feature as our guest Lauren Carter, poet and novelist, from La Pas, Manitoba who is on a book launch tour for her latest book, Swarm (Brindle & Glass, September 17, 2013)

Lauren made us all sit up and take notice with her poetry collection Lichen Bright (Your Scrivener Press, 2005), which was listed for the ReLit Award.

"Lauren Carter opened the Art Bar show with new pieces about 'a family uprooted' more than once, full of details from her family tree research and strong visuals 'buds like tight white purses' - 'a wing written into the rock' - she read from her new book Lichen Bright. Her work has a strong sense of family, history and rural life. I especially liked 'their smiles spread like suspicious curtains' - from Witches."

Read about Lauren here:

http://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/lauren-carter/

Read about Swarm by clicking here:

http://www.brindleandglass.com/book_details.php?isbn_upc=9781927366202