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 Steve Cohen. Cohen is a professional photographer and self-taught, published poet who has read his work at various venues in Los Angeles for more than 20 years. He loves to make people think and also make people laugh, stating, "My funny pieces can be very funny and my serious pieces can be intense and disturbing and sometimes weird." The 81-year-old Cohen has read for many years at the L.A.-based Second Sunday Poetry Series, and is currently working on a photography book of images of Santa Monica at night.