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.
12 sunday
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.
13 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.
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: Open mic, followed by featured reader Elizabeth Kirschner 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.
14 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.
15 wednesday
7:30 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.
4:00 p.m. DENVER: Copper Nickel and CU-Denver present Mark Yakich in room 1130 of the North Classroom building, on the Auraria campus. For more info, email jake@copper-nickel.org.
7:00 p.m. WESTMINSTER: Third Thursday Open Mic. Open mic, followed by featured reader Bill Roberts, at Forza Coffee Company, 3013 West 104th Avenue (NW corner of 104th Ave. & Federal Blvd.). For more nfo, or to sign up for the open mic, email Faye at faye@quameditorial.com or call 303-503-3530.
7:30 p.m. BOULDER: Beckian Fritz Goldberg and Miguel Murphy read in room 270 of the Hale Building, on the CU campus (here). For more info
7:30 p.m. FORT COLLINS: Colorado Prize Reading. Martha Ronk and Enid Hartigan read on the CSU campus (here). For more info
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: "East Coast Series." Open mic at Folsom Street Coffee Company, 1795 Folsom Street (SW corner of Folsom & Canyon). 303-440-8808.
17 friday
6:00 p.m. DENVER: Mackenzie Carignan and Linda Keller read, with Jessy Randall and Anthony Guilbert, at Abecedarian Gallery, 910 Santa Fe Drive, #101 (here). For more info, email Mackenzie at mackenzie@pontarelli.com.
7:00 p.m. BOULDER: Open poetry reading in the upstairs ballroom at the Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl Street (here). For more info, email Stephanie at stephaniew@boulderbookstore.com. 303-447-2074.
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.
18 saturday
3:00 p.m. DENVER: "Poetry at the Dikeou Collection." Bin Ramke, Elizabeth Robinson, Anne Heide, Selah Saterstrom, Richard Froude, and Nate Jordon read at the Dikeou Collection in Suite 515 of the Colorado Building, 1615 California Street (here). For more info, email three.plus.three@hotmail.com.
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: Andrew Schelling and Lawson Fusao Inada read at Naropa University, Arapahoe (here).
9:30 p.m. DENVER: Open mic at Brother Jeff's Cultural Center & Cafe, 2836 Welton Street (between 28th & 29th, on the east side of Welton). For more info, call 303-297-0823. Donation requested.
19 sunday
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.
20 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. BOULDER: Open mic, followed by featured reader Elizabeth Kirschner 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.