Gratitude Poetry Open Mic (A Bigfoot Festival Event)

With times being pretty far from great right now, it is important to come together with community, take a deep breath, and share in our gratitude. Leaning into joy is vital, it is how we get through hard times. To quote Maya Angelou, “We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.”

With that, the Bigfoot Poetry Festival is announcing the Gratitude Poetry Open Mic.

This event is a space for poets to bring their most gracious, praising of, joy-ridden work. We are asking that all poems in this mic be geared towards the theme of gratitude. Whether this is a love poem about your partner, a poem praising cheesecake, an ode to your favorite TV show, a piece about how amazing trees are - whatever gratitude looks like to you. We are looking for poems that are defiant in their uplifting nature.

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This event is taking place at 7:00pm on Friday, November 22nd, at L'Atelier Yaffe (111 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd). Doors at 6:30pm.

Poets on the open mic get four minutes to share 1 - 2 poems. Sign up here to get on the list -

Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. All proceeds go towards putting on the Bigfoot Poetry Festival in 2025.

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We will have a featured reading by the one-and-only Christopher Diaz!

Christopher is a writer, performer, and photographer from the island of Guåhan. He has been featured by NBC news, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Poets & Writers.org, and more. He is a two-time grand slam champion of Houston’s slam poetry team, “Write About Now,” which ranked fifth in the nation in 2018, and he recently won first place at the 2023 Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam festival with his PNW slam team, team “tbd.” He specializes in portrait and performing arts photography, and has previously taught poetry and coached performance with the non-profit, "Writers in the Schools." His Instagram handle is "@lightbulbchris," but he assures you he goes by Christopher. You can find him at .

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