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
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: "East Coast Series." Featured readers, 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. FORT COLLINS: Poetry slam at the The Bean Cycle, 144 North College Avenue (on the east side of College Avenue, between Mountain Avenue and LaPorte Avenue). 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.
5 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.
6 monday
7:00 p.m. FT. COLLINS: Open mic on the ground floor at The Alley Cat, 120& 1/2 West Laurel Street (a 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.
7:00 p.m. LONGMONT: The Longmont "Poetry Meetup" will meet at Shear Beauty, 619 Ken Pratt Boulevard (behind Village Inn). 303-485-0585.
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. DENVER: 2008 Colorado Book Awards. Among other awards, the Colorado Book Award for Poetry will be awarded tonight. The finalists this year are: Robert King (Greeley), for Old Man Laughing; David Mason (Colorado Springs), for Ludlow; Jessy Randall (Colorado Springs), for A Day in Boyland; and Anne Waldman (Boulder), for Outrider. For more info, email Jen Long at long@coloradohumanities.org.
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 POETRY SERIES!
7:00 p.m. LAFAYETTE: Cannon Mine Poetry Series. New Voices. The Colorado Poets Association presents another installment of "New Voices," featuring Melissa Katsimpalis (Fort Collins), Barb Sorensen (Boulder), and Laura Weaver (Boulder), followed by an 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, email cannonmine@coloradopoets.org or call Bryan Roth at 303-817-3312.
7:30 p.m. FORT COLLINS: CSU Fall Reading Series. Merrill Gilfillan and Thomas Kennedy will read in the Lory North Ballroom in the Lory Student Center on the campus of Colorado State University. For more info, email Dan.Beachy-Quick@colostate.edu.
7:00 p.m. LOVELAND: Poets' Co-op Open Reading Series. Colorado Poets Association member Jared Smith 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." 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, see the website at 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.