NIGHTJAR, a poetry series, featuring Mariah Ivey

Name: NIGHTJAR, a poetry series, featuring Mariah Ivey
Start: 2025-03-19T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-19T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Indiana 46203

Schedule

Wed Mar 19 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Indiana 46203 | Indianapolis, IN

Doors at 6:30 pm, Mariah Ivey's reading starts at 7 pm. The reading will be followed by an open mic of poems in response to the following prompt: Write a poem about home. (317 words maximum)
Mariah Ivey, recently muraled as a ‘Keeper of Culture’ in Indianapolis, IN by visual artist Ashley Nora x GangGang, is a nationally renowned poet, musician, scholar, and curator. Mariah is the visionary and founder of That Peace Open Mic, centering spoken word, hip-hop, and visual art as a form of resistance and communal healing. She also co-curates the annual Indy-based arts and wellness festival, The RE-UP.
Currently, Mariah serves as the Programs and Outreach Manager for the Madam Walker Legacy Center. She is a 2023 Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI) Fellow, a member of Central Indiana Community Foundation’s (CICF) artist ambassador board and is the inaugural Board President of the Naptown African American Theatre Collective, Indy’s first Black Equity Theatre. With community in mind, Mariah continues to use her work as a catalyst for reimagining Black futurity, joy, and togetherness through the preservation of Black and Brown stories.
NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.