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.
22 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.
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: 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.
23 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.
24 wednesday
7:30 p.m. BOULDER: Yellow Pine Reading Series. Poets M.D. Friedman, Katherine West, and Jamba Dunn will read, as well as fiction writer Cat Altman in the Wild Sage Community House, 1650 Zambia Drive (here). For more info, email Ellen Orleans at eorleans@earthlink.com.
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.
25 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.
FORT COLLINS POETRY SERIES!
7:00 p.m. FORT COLLINS: The Fort Collins Poetry Series. The Colorado Poets Association presents the Fort Collins Poetry Series, featuring three of Colorado's best poets: Ruth Ellen Kocher, Sheryl Luna, and TBA, 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 Ave. & W. Oak St.). The 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.
Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of three books of poetry: Desdemona's Fire, When the Moon Knows You're Wandering, and One Girl Babylon. Ruth has a PhD in English and teaches in the creative writing program at CU-Boulder. Sheryl Luna won the Andres Montoya Award from Notre Dame University for her first book of poetry, Pity the Drowned Horses, which was also a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the 2006 Colorado Book Award for poetry. Sheryl has a PhD in Literature and also teaches in the English department at CU-Boulder.
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.
27 saturday
10:00 a.m. DENVER: Columbine Poets meet at Daphne's Deli, 393 Corona Street (between 3rd Avenue & 4th Avenue, on the west side of Corona). For more info, email Anita Jepson-Gilbert at anitajg5@aol.com. 303-733-1212.
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). 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.
28 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.
29 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.
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: 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.
30 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.