Last Chance Poetry is for people who would like to attend poetry events, and poets who would like to perform in front of an audience. We've already held several events in Bergen County, NJ prior to creating this Meetup Group, and plan to organize events at least once a month. Our events include a headliner and an open mic, so anyone can participate. If you're a poet who has never performed before, it's a very open group, for poets of all ages. If you are a poetry lover who has never been at an e …

Welcome back, everyone!!! This is the Open Mic series that has been held at Studio Two in Peekskill at Scarlett Antonia's art loft for almost 9 years.  This is the original Poetry Open Mic in Peekskill on Meetup.  So good to have you all back!!!  We are expanding our poetry open mic to be officially called the Spoken Word Series since that title does encompass what we have been reading all along!  This title was collaborated on with my new curator of the series; Maureen Winzig who is al …

Suffern Slam Society holds a poetry slam the first Saturday of every month at Ireland's 32 in Suffern, NY from 730 PM to 10 PM. A poetry slam is a performance poetry competition judged by arbitrarily-selected audience members. Where traditional poetry readings are about supporting the poet, poetry slams focus on the interaction between audience and poet. Strong writing and strong delivery are both important. Whether you want to come out and participate by performing or by spectating, you …

This group is created for funny freakin' people that haven't yet been noticed because NYC is just TOO FREAKIN' FAR to perform regular open mics. Writer's, aspiring comic, sketch artist's (whatever the hell that means), anxiety disordered people looking to avoid medication, funny and not so freakin' people are all welcome. Even if your passion is simply to become an alcoholic, we can use you as material...