Kick off the year with an Open Mic and Poetry Slam! 8 spot open mic, 12 spot poetry slam. The poetry slam is a preliminary slam for the 2019 poetry slam team. The top six poets get to move on to finals on February 24th to compete for a spot on the team. Open mic readers get 5 minutes to share their work (all types of wordsmiths welcome)! Poetry Slam competitors have 3 minutes each round to share their own original poems for a chance to win the coveted $10 roll of quarters! Signs ups start promptly at 6pm, and the open mic kicks off promptly at 6:30pm.