Your Host: Jaylene Clark Owens

Open Mic hosted by Jaylene Clark Owens

Monday, December 2, 2024

Whether you come to listen or share, we hope to see you there!

The open mic has a suggested donation of $10.00. Click Here to get your ticket

 

Performers and Audience members of this event may be photographed or recorded for promotional purposes.
The event will be in-person, in the Wilma Theater Lobby.

 

2024-25 Open Mic Schedule

 

THE COMEUPPANCE – Monday, Dec 2 at 7pm

THEME: Reunion

 

Featured Artist: Lynae B.

Lynae B. is a poet and author whose mission is to encourage personal and spiritual growth through continuous rediscovery of self. Her chapbook “Growing Somewhere,” published in December of 2022, wholefully embodies the content of her pursuit: Faith, Relationships, Self-Love, and Growth. While many of her poems are geared more toward the elevation of women, she strives to influence the progression of every ear inclined to listen.
Instagram: Lynae B – @lynae___
Youtube: Lynae B – YouTube
Website: lynaebpoetry.com

 

The Half-God of Rainfall – Monday, February 24 at 7pm

THEME: Vengeance 

 

Featured Artist: “The Poet Bul”

Pronouns: he/him
Instagram: @thepoetbul
Website: https://linktr.ee/thepoetbul

 

 

Archduke – Monday, April 28 at 7pm

THEME: Legacy

 

Featured Artist: KP ULTRA

Pine Bluff, Arkansas native Christopher K.P. Brown is the founder of Pecola Breedlove & The Freedom Party, a West Philadelphia–based open mic poetry event that created a platform for poets both local and national for five years.

He is a graduate of Mercer University where he majored in African American Studies. When he isn’t working on poetry, he enjoys doing genealogy work for his family tree research company, Before They Were Ancestors, LLC.

he/him/they/them

@KP84ULTRA – IG
@KP84ULTRA – TikTok
Christopher K.P. Brown – Facebook

www.hyperfollow.com/kpultra

 

 

A SUMMER DAY – Monday, June 23 at 7pm

THEME: Stuck in the Past

 

Featured Artist: Cyn Jones

Cyn Jones (they/them) is a soft badass poet and hopeful romantic who has been writing for 30 years and on poetry stages for ten. Cyn is the author of The World is burning and all I can do is Love You. When they aren’t writing or reading poetry, they can be found experiencing it by playing in nature, dancing, exploring, and loving on their loved ones.

laughingalifepossible.com
Instagram/threads/tiktok- laughingalifepossible