Say What?! Team at Coffee Underground featuring Black Phoenix

Say What?! Open Mic at Coffee Underground featuring team member and slam master Black Phoenix of Greenville, SC! All poetry styles welcome! The night will also feature a full night of open mic slots for local poets on a first-come, first serve basis. Host ShAy Black.

Say What?! Feature Marcus Turner aka Black Phoenix a Lynchburg, Virginia native who migrated to Simpsonville South Carolina found his voice through poetry. Black Phoenix embodies humbleness but when on stage is a fiery phoenix. He is a multi-talented musician and brilliant writer. He began his journey by attending open mics throughout the upstate of South Carolina and competed in many slams. Through honing his craft and tapping into his pain from relationships and family he began to be a force to be reckoned. Black Phoenix was a member of the Upstate SC Poetry Slam Team-Tell It! (2012) and a member of the Upstate SC Poetry Slam Team-Say What (2011&2013), and tied for 9th place of over 130 poets in the 2015 Southernfried poetry slam competition. Also, Black Phoenix was the 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2019 Upstate SC Haiku Slam Champion as well as being the 2015, 2016, 2018 Southernfried haiku slam champion, Southernfried Regional, and National Nerd Slam champion and is the current Slam Master for the SayWhat!? Poetry slam team in Greenville, SC and opened for Carl Thomas.
Black Phoenix is also a host of Wits End Poetry open Mic nights and poetry slams for Coffee Underground.

Coffee Underground. 1 East Coffee Street. Greenville, SC 29601. Doors open at 7:00 pm. $10.

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Benefiting the Say What Slam Team Travel Fund.

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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