7:00 p.m. FORT COLLINS: "Musings." Open mic at the f/Stop Cafe (inside the Poudre River Arts Center), 400 North College Avenue (three blocks north of Mountain, on the east side of College). For more info, email Sage at sage.more.is.green@gmail.com or call 970-416-7375.
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: Open mic presented by Illiterate magazine and Baobab Press at Burnt Toast, 1135 Pennsylvania Avenue (on The Hill, across the street from The Sink). For more info, email akposani@aol.com or call 303-859-1034.
2 thursday
4:00 p.m. FORT COLLINS: Brian Teare reads in room 203 of the Morgan Library on the campus of Colorado State University (here). For more info, email Jane Barber at jane.barber@colostate.edu or call 970-491-5712.
7:00 p.m. FORT COLLINS: Open mic and poetry slam in The Tap Room at Catalyst, 3501 South Shields Street (here). Sign-up for open mic starts at 6:30; sign-up for the slam starts at 7:30. For more info, email catalystnews@rocketmail.com. 970-310-8250.
7:00 p.m. LOVELAND: Poets Co-op Spring Open Reading Series. Peter Neil Carroll will read, preceded by an open mic, at the Loveland Museum & Gallery, 503 North Lincoln Avenue (NW corner of 5th & Lincoln). 970-962-2410.
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: "East Coast Series." Featured reader, followed by an open mic, at Folsom Street Coffee Company, 1795 Folsom Street (SW corner of Folsom & Canyon). 303-440-8808.
3 friday
7:30 p.m. BOULDER: "Yellow Pine Readings Series." Maureen Owen and Brian Teare will read, with Naropa University MFA candidates Marie Larson and Matt Wise, at the Wild Sage Community House, 1650 Zamia Drive (here). Light refreshments will be served. For more info, email Ellen Orleans at eorleans@earthlink.net or call ?
8:00 p.m. FORT COLLINS: Poetry slam at The Bean Cycle coffee shop, 144 North College Avenue (here). For more info, email Larry "Booger" Holgerson at thatganeshaguy@hotmail.com or call 970-221-2964.
10:00 p.m. DENVER: Open mic at Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street (SW corner of 22nd & California). Sign-up starts at 9:30. 303-924-9258.
4 saturday
9:30 p.m. DENVER: Open mic at Brother Jeff's Cultural Center and Cafe, 2836 Welton Street (between 28th & 29th, on the east side of Welton). For more info, call 303-297-0823. Donation requested.
7:00 p.m. DENVER: "Jam before the slam" with Art Compost & the Word Mechanics at 7 p.m., open mic at 8 p.m., and a poetry slam at 9:00, at Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street (SW corner of 22nd & California). 303-294-9258. Donation requested for the slam.
6 monday
7:00 p.m. FT. COLLINS: Open mic on the ground floor at The Alley Cat, 120 & 1/2 West Laurel Street (half a block west of College Ave., in the alley behind Pizza Casbah, on the north side of Laurel). For more info, email (preferred) twilightkid86m@yahoo.com, or call 970-223-3002.
7:00 p.m. MANITOU SPRINGS: The Goddess Open Mic. Open mic at Black Cat Books, 720 Manitou Avenue (in downtown Manitou Springs). For more info, email Karen at kalikookalehua@aol.com or call 718-232-5961.
8:00 p.m. DENVER: Open mic, followed by featured readers at 9:00, at The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl Street (on the north side of Pearl Street, just east of 17th). Sign-up for open mic starts at 7:30. 303-440-4628.
7 tuesday
8:00 p.m. DENVER: "Pretty Boy School of Public Speaking." Open mic at Common Grounds in LoDo, 1601 17th Street (NW corner of 17th & Wazee). 303-296-9248.
8 wednesday
7:00 p.m. FORT COLLINS: "Musings." Open mic at the f/Stop Cafe (inside the Poudre River Arts Center), 400 North College Avenue (three blocks north of Mountain, on the east side of College). For more info, email Sage at sage.more.is.green@gmail.com or call 970-416-7375.
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: Open mic presented by Illiterate magazine and Baobab Press at Burnt Toast, 1135 Pennsylvania Avenue (on The Hill, across the street from The Sink). For more info, email akposani@aol.com or call 303-859-1034.
9 thursday
CANNON MINE!
7:00 p.m. LAFAYETTE: Cannon Mine Reading Series. The Colorado Poets Association presents a special extended open mic at Cannon Mine Coffee Company, 210 South Public Road (four blocks south of Baseline Road on the NE corner of Cannon Mine & S. Public Road). For more info or to sign up for the open mic, email cannonmine@coloradopoets.org or call Bryan Roth at 720-448-5597.
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: "East Coast Series." Student poets from Naropa, followed by an open mic, at Folsom Street Coffee Company, 1795 Folsom Street (SW corner of Folsom & Canyon). 303-440-8808.
10 friday
7:30 p.m. DENVER: Cafe Cultura Open Mic Night. Featured readers, followed by an open mic, at Denver Inner City Parish, 910 Galapago Street (two blocks east of Santa Fe, on 9th Avenue). For more info, email cafe_cultura@yahoo.com, to to www.myspace.com/cafecultura, or call 720-436-1830.
10:00 p.m. DENVER: Open mic at Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street (SW corner of 22nd & California). Sign-up starts at 9:30. 303-924-9258.