Rock the Boat
Prepare to be moved! Join us for the festival iteration of Rock the Boat, Push the Boat Out’s longstanding monthly poetry open mic. Register here to perform your poetry alongside a score of other open miccers or come by to just listen. Though we are an anglophone open mic, poets often perform multilingually, and we particularly encourage poets to share work in Gaelic and Scots. You especially won’t want to miss the rapid-fire feature poets James Steadman, Natalie Elizabeth, and Shondra Riley, who will close out the evening!
You can now sign up to read at Rock the Boat via this link: https://forms.gle/XaVhB62j6gijAbfg8
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