The Bigfoot Poetry Festival Presents: A Welcome Poetry Open Mic!

Schedule

Wed Jun 24 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Guilder Coffee Company @ Powell's City of Books | Portland, OR

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A poetry open mic to welcome poets and the community to the start of the Bigfoot Poetry Festival!
About this Event

Welcome welcome welcome, all!

This is the kick off event for the Bigfoot Poetry Festival - a three day poetry festival taking place in downtown Portland all of June 25th - 27th. (See the full list of events here.)

This mic will be from 6:00pm - 7:30pm on June 24th, the night before the festival officially begins. This will be a space for poets who are in town for the festival to come meet, mingle, and share a poem - and for the local community to come out as well. Plus we'll be hyping up all of the festival events we have in store!!

We will give priority to poets who are registered with the festival and our volunteers, especially those coming in from out-of-town, but there will some be space for local poets to read as well.

This event is hosted by TBA. The Welcome Open Mic will take place at Guilder Coffee inside of Powell's Books (1005 W Burnside St) in downtown Portland. Sign ups will start at 5:30pm. This event is FREE!

This venue is ADA accessible - there are stairs to get to the cafe, and there is an elevator to take attendees to where this show is happening.

We hope to see you all there!!

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Where is it happening?

Guilder Coffee Company @ Powell's City of Books, 1035 West Burnside Street, Portland, United States

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