Spoken Word Poetry Club

Join us on Wednesdays to perform and workshop poetry while providing others an open and receptive ear and, if requested, constructive respectful feedback. This is not a class. Poems can be original or not. They can be read directly from a book or the scrap of paper you wrote it on that morning. It’s simply a forum to share. Sometimes a spoken word poem can take weeks or months to move from the page to fully memorized and matched with body movements, etc. Some might want to workshop a poem through those stages. Others might want to simply read something off their phone or paper once, and then move on to something different.

There is no writing time. At each gathering, participants share their work aloud. Some days everyone might share, perhaps several times, other days, depending on how many people participate, you might only have a chance to listen and be there for those sharing. If this group had a rule it would be: Poetry is powerful and often deeply personal so this group must be a safe place and all poems and feedback shall remain private, or as I would say in my former journalistic life… “Off The Record.”

This group is for exploring a beautiful art form, sharing and harnessing the amazing and often terrifying power of self-expression and public speaking while daring ourselves to be vulnerable and authentic and encouraging others to do the same.

Venue: Green Warung Second Floor

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