Poetry & Fiction Reading & Open Mic at Phinista Café, Cambridge
Schedule
Thu Oct 16 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Phinista Cafe, 1876 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140 | Cambridge, MA
Poets Mary Buchinger and George Kalogeris and author Karen Propp will read from their work, followed by an open mic. This Vietnamese cafe is great. Espresso your thoughts, steep in poetry. Come, let's mingle over mugs and metaphors. Bring your own texts for the open mic!
Mary Buchinger, whose recent books include Navigating the Reach (Honors, 2024 Massachusetts Book Award, Salmon Poetry) and The Book of Shores (Lily Poetry Review Books), teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston.
George Kalogeris’s most recent book of poems is Winthropos, (Louisiana State University, 2021). He is also the author of Guide to Greece, a book of paired poems in translation, Dialogos, and poems based on the notebooks of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets.
Karen Propp is a writer and editor living in Cambridge. She is the author of two memoirs and co-editor of the best-selling anthology, "Why I’m Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes."
Where is it happening?
Phinista Cafe, 1876 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140, United States
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