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.

Whether you’re a regular with a weekly seat or stepping down our stairs for the first time, we invite you to join as we celebrate how poetry challenges and connects us. Each Takeover will be a little different, but each time we’ll be booting Blake off the stage. Come see what happens when we hand the keys to the poets.

For the September Takeover, our theme is Art Without Ego: An Other's People's Poetry Slam, hosted by team member Toni Blue Rose, aka Blue Tongue Skink

Who helped you become the poet you are today? 

Inspired by the philosophy of the late Boston poet Lucci - "Art Without Ego" - this month's Takeover celebrates the voices that inspire us, challenge us, and remind us that none of us become poets alone. 

Competitors in the slam will perform a poem written by someone else. It can be a favorite writer, a mentor, a teammate, a family member, someone we've lost, or even someone sitting in the audience. Before or after each performance, poets will share who they chose and why that poet or poem has influenced their life or writing.

For one night, original work will result in a point deduction, as we celebrate interpretation, gratitude, mentorship, and honoring the voices that helped shape our own. 

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