The Quorum Poets Present Featured Poet Laura Secord and Open Mic
Schedule
Sun, 07 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
True Story Brewing Company | Birmingham, AL
Join The Quorum Poets this Sunday at True Story Brewing Company as we present featured poet Laura Secord! Our monthly open mic follows Laura’s set. Reading begins at 7 PM. Open mic sign-up opens at 6:45 PM.Laura Secord, aka Mojo Mamma is a poet, storyteller, teaching artist. Tonight, she’ll be reading from her new manuscript, Come, Do What Weapons Cannot. Her novel-in-poems, An Art, A Craft, A Mystery was awarded the 2024 Authors Award for Poetry by Alabama Library Association and was chosen as the best Indie Historical Fiction of 2022 by Kirkus Reviews. A Pushcart nominee, her poems appear in Poetry, NELLE, the Anthology, What Things Cost, Hobo Camp Review, Shift, Simple Machines, Cahoodleloodling, Finishing Line Press, Burning House Press, and more. She has worked as a printer, union organizer, health care activist, teacher, sex-educator and nurse practitioner in community health and HIV care. She served as Director of Community Engagement for The Magic City Poetry Festival.
