Our regular twice-a-month open mic series where the Lowell Poetry community comes together. Held on the first and third Wednesday of every month.
/// About our EVENT ///
This Wednesday, join us for an evening of poetry and prose, a showcase of handpicked writers from the Middlesex Community College Creative Writing program.
Conor Burrell is currently a Creative Writing Student at the UMass Lowell and a proud graduate of Middlesex Community College. His work has been published in Dead River Review, Issues #9 and #10. He loves writing fiction and has a dream of one day becoming a published novelist. He plans to attend graduate school in pursuit of teaching.
bllu Catalano just got off the train. Could be from Berghain, could be from Wellfleet. Her favorite T-shirt says "I'm Your Man." She studies Creative Writing at MCC and helps run the college’s Community Garden. Her short story “Panic is Coming on Strong” was published in the Dead River Review, and her poem “9 Sentinels Sonnet” was published and performed at Art on the Trails (Beals Preserve, Southborough, MA) the past summer. In between writing by night and gardening by day, bllu listens to music and reads Walt Whitman for the thousandth time.
Eliezer (Ez) Engerman is a poet, writer, and self-described perpetual self-obstacle. A Middlesex Community College alumni and current student at UMass Lowell, Ez spends his spare time in existential crisis, ADHD paralysis, and getting bit by his cat, Chuck. He hopes to become a librarian, never to escape the labyrinthine halls of academia.
Elizabeth Mood is a Creative Writing student at Middlesex Community College. She works as a writing tutor in MCC’s Academic Centers for Enrichment, where she’s excited to help students succeed and is working towards a Level 3 International Tutor Training Program Certification (ITTPC) through the College Reading and Learning Association. Her fiction work is inspired by magical realism, fairy tales, and finding wonder in unlikely places. When not reapplying her lip gloss, she plunges her stories' heroes into their deepest sorrows and writes them learning to laugh again.
//// About the Venue ///
Dragonfly Cafe is a gluten-free cafe located in a renovated mill building in Lowell, Massachusetts serving grain bowls, salads, toasts, smoothies, smoothie bowls, coffee, and specialty cocktails.
Located near the Bus and Commuter Rail Station
165 Thorndike Street Lowell, MA
Parking available in main parking lot and free street parking on Highland Street or paid parking in the Gallagher Garage next to the train station with a sky bridge to the Thorndike Exchange building.
Outside food notice: Dragonfly Cafe is a completely Gluten-Free facility. Everything on the menu from their kitchen to bar Is gluten-free. For the safety of those who rely on that, Dragonfly Cafe does not allow any outside food or drink in our cafe. Thank you for understanding!
/// Format ///
Sign-Ups Open @ 6pm
Open Mic Starts @ 6:30 pm
[Main event'] begins after the open reading.
All Done @ 9:00pm
/// Details ///
Free Admission
Food, Drink, and Merch for Sale
(In Person)
Dragonfly Cafe
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/// Safer Space & Community Guidelines ///
Check out our community guidelines here
We strive to foster a space of inclusivity and respect. We ask everyone to not bring (in no particular order) ableist, ageist, body shaming, classist, homophobic, misogynist, misandrist, racist, transphobic, oppressive language, attitudes, and actions at the space. We look to hold ourselves and one another accountable to creating a culture in which we treat each other with consent and respect. This includes but is not limited to respecting people's physical and emotional boundaries and receiving explicit verbal consent before touching someone or crossing other personal boundaries. If you are disrupting our safer space we will ask you to leave.
This program is supported through donations from contributors like you.