Join us on Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 2:00pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Rajiv Mohabir. Workshop theme to be announced ** ACCESS NOTES: The workshop will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom auto captions. An ASL interpreter will be present. Access copies of workshop materials will be made available via […]
Category: Past Events
Open Mouth Presents: A Reading with Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Rajiv Mohabir
Join us on Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 7:00pm Central for readings by featured poets Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Rajiv Mohabir. The reading will be preceded by a round of introductory readings by community readers. ACCESS NOTES: The reading will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom auto captions, and an ASL interpreter will be present. […]
Everything but the Kitchen Sink with Noor Hindi
Join us on Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 2:00pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Noor Hindi. Everything but the Kitchen Sink: A Poetry Workshop on Messiness, Chaos, and the Seemingly Random Dinosaurs. Nose piercings. Vintage pleasures. How can we use ordinary and everyday images as paths into the emotional landscapes of our […]
Open Mouth Presents: A Reading with Noor Hindi
Join us on Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 7:00pm Central for a reading by featured poet Noor Hindi. The reading will be preceded by a round of introductory readings by members of our poetry community. ACCESS NOTES: The reading will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom auto captions, and an ASL interpreter will be present. […]
The Open Mouth Poetry Festival Reading on 10/29
The annual Open Mouth Poetry Festival is here! Join us for our first reading on Friday, October 29th, 2021 at 7:00pm Central with features Threa Almontaser, Danielle Badra, Banah el Ghadbanah, Carolyn Guinzio, and Mohja Kahf, with an opening mini-feature by Vasantha Sambamurti. The reading will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom auto captions, […]
Open Mouth Presents: A Contrapuntal Workshop With Danielle Badra
Join us on Saturday, October 30, 2021 from 1:00pm – 2:30pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Danielle Badra. Contrapuntal Workshop: Creating Resistance via Collaboration and Conversation Writing poetry can be a very isolated process. Oftentimes I find myself alone in my office, blasting some orchestral Arabic music, trying with all my might […]
Personas Unknown with Jordan E. Franklin
Join us on Saturday, October 30, 2021 from 4:00pm – 5:30pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Jordan E. Franklin. A persona poem is a piece written from the perspective of a figure either real or fictionalized. While a persona can be seen as a way to escape one’s self, it can actually […]
The Open Mouth Poetry Festival Reading on 10/30
Join us for the second evening of poetry festival readings on Saturday, October 30th, 2021 at 7:00pm Central with features Kaveh Bassiri, Emily Rose Cole, Brody Parrish Craig, Jordan E. Franklin, and Khalisa Rae, with an opening mini-feature by David Donna. The reading will take place virtually via Zoom with Zoom auto captions, and an […]
Our Ghosts Stalk the Page with Muriel Leung
Join us on Sunday, September 12, 2021 from 2:00pm – 3:00pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Muriel Leung. Workshop Description: What ghosts stalk your writing? As writers, we are led to believe that the poem reveals what is hidden, but what if some things remain unseen? The origin story stolen away from […]
Poems Across Time and Place
Join us on Sunday, July 11, 2021 from 2:00pm – 3:00pm Central for a generative workshop with featured poet Raymond Antrobus. Workshop Description:In this workshop we will read and discuss poems across time and place, poems that move through real and imagined worlds. We’ll examine the importance of emotional and factual truth and why we ought […]