Open Mic Poetry

Share your original poems, lyrics, spoken word, or just enjoy listening. Each poet will have five minutes to read an original work. If you wish to read, sign up when you arrive. 


Our featured speaker will be Martin Jago. Martin is a British-American poet based in Los Angeles, author of Photofit (Pindrop Press, 2023) and the forthcoming chapbook Black Plastic Blues (Finishing Line, 2026). His writing has appeared widely in literary magazines like Agenda, Acumen, The Moth, LIT Magazine, Presence, The Penn Review, The High Window, The Indianapolis Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Sierra Nevada Review, among others. He holds a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford where he was an F.H. Pasby Prize finalist and H.E.F.C.E. scholar.