Inter|Act Spoken Word Open Mic Featuring Addie Mahmassani

Are you ready to get your poetry on? Join us on October 7, 2025 at Satori Arts for Inter|Act, a FREE spoken word open mic night, from 7-9 pm, featuring Addie Mahmassani.

Addie Mahmassani is the author of the book Air Split Open: Odetta, Joan Baez, and the American Folk Movement, which will be out this spring with University of Iowa Press. Originally from the East Coast, she holds a PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University and an MFA in Poetry from San José State University. She works as a Humanities Specialist at Khan Lab School and has covered Arts & Entertainment extensively for regional and national news media. She co-edits En•Trance Journal with Dion O’Reilly and Jeremey Graves and has published creative writing in Catamaran, Reed Magazine, and Visual Anthropology Review.

Come share your spoken word work or poetry with the community, or come out to support our local readers! Sign up to read starting at 6:30 pm. Limited seating. For more information, visit www.maginei.com/openmic.

1st and 3rd Tuesdays.

Free.

Satori Arts, 815 Almar, #9, Santa Cruz (warehouse building near the back, follow signs)

Host or Publisher Kimberley Bermender