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.
22 wednesday
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.
23 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.
24 friday
FORT COLLINS POETRY SERIES!
7:00 p.m. FORT COLLINS: Fort Collins Poetry Series. The Colorado Poets Association presents the Fort Collins Poetry Series, featuring three of Colorado's best poets: Jeffrey Franklin, Jake Adam York, and Lisa Zimmerman at Everyday Joe's Coffee House, 144 South Mason Street (on the east side of Mason, one block west of College Avenue, between W. Mountain Avenue & W. Oak Street). Reading will be followed by a reception and book-signing. For more info, call Bryan Roth at 303-817-3312 or email fortcollins@coloradopoets.org.
Jeffrey Franklin teaches at CU-Denver and is the author of For the Lost Boys. Jake Adam York is the author of two books, Murder Ballads and A Murmuration of Starlings, and is the director of the creative writing program at CU-Denver. Lisa Zimmerman is the author of two full-length books, How the Garden Looks from Here and The LIght at the Edge of Everything, as well as two chapbooks, and currently teaches at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.
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.
25 saturday
8:00 p.m. DENVER: "Poets Under the Umbrella." Open Mic at Under the Umbrella Cafe, 3504 East 12th Avenue (about halfway between Madison & Monroe, on the south side of East 12th Avenue). For more info, email Kit Muldoon at justkitsfriends@yahoo.com or email 303-256-0797.
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.
26 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.
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.
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.
28 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.
29 wednesday
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.
30 thursday
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.
31 friday
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.