Each week we present a featured poet accompanied by the Blake Newman Group.
Lizard Lounge, Cambridge MA, 7 pm; Admission $10; Buy Tickets
Lizard Lounge Slam Team Takeover
The Lizard Lounge Slam Team is taking over!!
The slam team will host a night with more poetry and more poets! We’re hoping to create additional opportunities for poets to share their work, offer more open mic space, and provide room for themed events, alternative formats, and exciting experiments…MORE
Lizard Lounge, Cambridge MA 7 pm; Admission $10; Buy Tickets
Timothy Mason
Timothy Mason has been actively performing poetry and promoting folk music since the 1980′s. He honed his performance style in the early poetry slams, the underground coffehouse scene of Cambridge, MA, and around the campfires of the fabled Kerrville Folk Festival...MORE
Lizard Lounge, Cambridge MA 7 pm; Admission $10; Buy Tickets
Mckendy Fils-Aimé
Mckendy Fils-Aimé is a New England-based Haitian American poet, organizer, and teaching artist. He is the author of sipèstisyon (YesYes Books, 2026) and has received fellowships from Callaloo, Cave Canem, The Watering Hole, CantoMundo, and Periplus...MORE
Lizard Lounge, Cambridge MA, 7 pm; Admission $10; Buy Tickets
René Manuel Ramos
René Manuel Ramos (he/him) is a Providence-based artist born & raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. A competitive poet on the Providence Poetry Slam team since 2025…MORE
Lizard Lounge, Cambridge MA, 7 pm; Admission $10; Buy Tickets
Nadia Gaskins
Nadia Gaskins is a Connecticut-born poet who has been writing since the age of 12. Now 23, she uses poetry to explore identity, vulnerability, healing, and the complexities of the human experience…MORE
LIZARD LOUNGE POETRY JAM
The doors open at 7:00 pm every Sunday, and we start with our “Open Mic,” accompanied by the Blake Newman Group. The “Poetry Slam” will start roughly at 8 pm. After the slam, we present our “Featured Poet,” also accompanied by the Blake Newman Group. There’s a $10 cover charge, and the Lizard Lounge is a 21+ venue.
BEST POETRY SERIES
The Improper Bostonian says that the Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam is the "Best Poetry Series" in the greater Boston area!