ProvSlam Open Mic + DOUBLE FEATURE with Maya Williams and Greg Smith!!

Name: ProvSlam Open Mic + DOUBLE FEATURE with Maya Williams and Greg Smith!!
Start: 2024-11-07T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 115 Empire Street, 02903

Schedule

Thu Nov 07 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

115 Empire Street, 02903 | Providence, RI

Join us on Thursday November 7 for an open mic and a special double feature with Maya Williams and Greg Smith!
Doors open and sign-up sheet is posted at 7pm.
Admission is $5-10 suggested donation, or pay what you can. No one is turned away for lack of funds.
MORE ABOUT OUR FEATURES:
Maya Williams (ey/they/she) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who was selected as Portland, ME's seventh poet laureate for a July 2021 to July 2024 term. Maya received a MFA in Creative Writing with a Focus in Poetry from Randolph College in June 2022. Eir debut poetry collection Judas & Suicide (Game Over Books, 2023) was selected as a finalist for a New England Book Award. Their second poetry collection, Refused a Second Date (Harbor Editions, 2023), was selected as a finalist for a Maine Literary Award. Their third poetry collection, What's So Wrong with a Pity Party Anyway?, was selected as one of four winners of Garden Party Collective's chapbook prize in 2024. Maya was selected as one of Maine Humanities Council's recipients of the Constance Carlson Public Humanities Prize in 2024. Follow her at @emmdubb16 and mayawilliamspoet.com.
Gregory Smith (They/Them) is drinking wine right now. You can typically find them sharing kandi bracelets with Metalheads or backswinging at a warehouse rave. They have been serving on staff at New Hampshire's longest running poetry slam and open mic series, Slam Free Or Die in Manchester, New Hampshire since 2018. They also were chosen as Slam Free Or Die’s Indie Slam Champion and IWPS representative (in abstentia) in 2018. Their poetry has appeared in Bullshit Lit, The Peoples Book Volume 2, Verum Literary Journal, Rockview Reader, Rectangles, and on NHPR.com. Their debut full-length collection Profligate Angel is available from Game Over Books. They're an Aries and therefore are here to spit fire and truth, no matter the cost.