Inter|Act Spoken Word Open Mic Featuring Luke Johnson

Are you ready to get your poetry on? Join us on November 18, 2025 at Satori Arts for Inter|Act, a FREE spoken word open mic night, from 7-9 pm, featuring poet Luke Johnson!

Luke Johnson is the author of Quiver (Texas Review Press 2023), A Slow Indwelling (Harbor Editions 2024) and Distributary, forthcoming from Texas Review Press fall 2025. Quiver was long listed for the 2025 Kate Tufts Award and a finalist for the 2024 California Book Award. Johnson was recently awarded runner up for the Robert Frost Residency through Dartmouth College. You can find more of his work at Poetry Daily, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere.

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