Say What?! Open Mic at Coffee Underground featuring Asma Abike

Say What Open Mic at Coffee Underground! featuring Asma Abike. All poetry styles welcome: page or stage! Open Mic slots for local poets on a first-come, first serve basis. Open mic poets may read/recite one poem and share their instagram/website - see below for more details. Host Kendra “myknichelle” Murphy.

Our feature Asma Abike is a poet, painter, and teaching artist from Charlotte, North Carolina, by way of Houston, Texas. She is a first-generation Nigerian-American Muslim woman. She is the inaugural Blackberry Peach National Slam Champion, a 2-time Charlotte Grand Slam Champion, Southern Fried Poetry Slam finalist, a Women of the Word Poetry Slam finalist, winner of the Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Prize, and a Watering Hole graduate fellow. Her work appears in the North Carolina Literary Review, Anaheim Literary Review, Lucky Jefferson, and Epiphany.

Coffee Underground. 1 East Coffee Street. Greenville, SC 29601. Doors open at 7:00 pm. $10. Entry is only guaranteed to those with advanced tickets. Non-sold-out shows have tickets for sale at the door via credit card, cash app, PayPal, or cash. Cashapp advanced ticket sto $witsendpoetry.

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ALL TICKETS CAN BE TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER SHOW BY EMAILING [email protected] before 7:30. Full refunds are available for cancellations 7 days in advance.

Produced by Wits End Poetry, these poetry events are made possible in part by the generous support of the South Carolina Arts Commission and the Metropolitan Arts Council with funds received from the City of Greenville, BMW Manufacturing Company, Michelin North America, Inc., SEW Eurodrive and the South Carolina Arts Commission. More information at www.witsendpoetry.com.

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