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⚓️ Longest running poetry slam & open mic in RI!
🎤 Every 1st & 3rd Thursday at @as220providence!
🗣️ Bringing people together since 1992!
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I was invited back to photograph for the folks at PVD Poetry Slam again, and these are two of my favorite photos from the event. You should definitely check out one of their events. It’s such a close, and loving community with so much talent.

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Everyone deserves their flowers! We’d like to recognize the winners of our 2026 NorthBeast superlatives. Let’s get hype for these superstars! 💫

Best Performance: William James of Slam Free or Die
Best Group Piece: C?ue, Henry, and Caleb of io-WHAT
Wronged by the Judges: Michaelis and Justice of Prov Slam
Funniest Poem: Gloria, RiN, and Kandace of Rockland Poets
Best Love Poem: Febo of Prov Slam
Pushing the Art Forward: Tazz of Ink Theory
Best Boutfit: Ashlynn of Denver Mercury
Spirit of the Slam: Tru Kwene of Just Be(Loved)

📸 Photos by Ilse Ruizvisfocri @ilse.rzvphoto

⛓️‍💥 Links to a feedback form and accessibility survey can be found in our bio! Can all attendees please take a few minutes to complete both forms for the betterment of future programming. Thank you!

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Poetry Book Club Announcement!!
@thepoetrypour x @symposiumbooks x @salena_jd
Friday, July 31st @ 7:30pm

Poetry Pour returns to Symposium Books, and this time we’re discussing “Depression & Other Magic Tricks” by Sabrina Benaim @badass_sab

Join us on July 31st from 7:30-8:30pm as we host poetry book club with The Poetry Pour. This month, we’re reading Sabrina Benaim’s Depression & Other Magic Tricks. Copies of the book are available to purchase in-store or online at symposiumbooks.com

About the book:

Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem “Explaining My Depression to My Mother” has become a cultural phenomenon with over 50,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. Andrea Gibson, author of Lord of the Butterflies writes “I read this book on a day I couldn’t get out of bed and it made me feel like I had a friend in the world...Simply put, this book disappears loneliness.

Free and open to all.

#bookclub #poetrybookclub #poetry #communityspace #readpoetry

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Everytime I read this poem aloud, it's an affirmation to myself I can't ignore because I am reminded of how strong I am.

That's why I wrote this poem. That's why I share it aloud. And that is why I made it into a poetry print.

So that when you hang it somewhere you can see it every day, you can be reminded that YOU are worthy and deserving too. 🤎

#affirmations #wallartwork #artforsale

🔗 [Poems for when you can't get out of bed. Poems for when you don't feel your best. Poems for when life is getting you down. Poems for feeling better after a long day. Poems for depression. Poems for anxiety-ridden days. Poems for manic days. Poems for meaning in the hard times. Poems to read when you just feel so sad. Poems to read if you've vowed to never give up. Poems to read all the time. Poems that will help you heal. Poems that make you feel more like you.]

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NORTHBEAST IS TWO WEEKS AWAY! We will be launching more programming updates soon, but for now, here are the dates and times for each team's preliminary bout! Come catch your faves as they battle for a spot on our Finals Stage, Sunday at Central Square Theater!

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Latest newsletter is filled with even more poetry goodness. Wanna see? Comment POUR & I gotchu 🫰🏾👏🏽👠

✍️🏽 [poetry, poets, poetry community, providence, rhode island, massachusetts, connecticut, northeast, new england, poetry slam, spoken word, literary, literary community, poem, poems, #poetryisnotdead ]

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Tainted

No introduction needed

Across the room, eyes lock,

And the axis shifts

You walk toward me in slow-motion

Nothing stays the same

Your velvety voice is textured,

A low frequency with no warning signs.

No treble. No bass

Just the dangerous hum of potential.

But you are only Mr. I just

You are only Mr. I almost

A master of leaving me hopeful and empty.

Your half-assed self-portraits hang in my mind,

Falling stars are crushing my life into ash.

Now the clock ticks in the dark

Loneliness is nothing but an echo

Of borrowed time

Love Ophelia Rose 🌹

Model: myself
Photographer: Heather Charette
Writer: myself Ophelia 🌹 rose
All copyright owned by me
Please don't be a shitty human and siphon my heartfelt thoughts and words.

@nettleliterary
@adam_breier_poetry @afroversedjs @provslam @cfl_photog @lindsay_marie2280

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In May, we hosted a 4x4 regional poetry slam with our friends from Boston Poetry Slam (@BostonPoetrySlam), Just Be(loved) Poetry Slam (@JustBe_loved), and Mill City Speaks (@LowellPoetryWheel)! 🎤

Meeting up with teams from our neighboring New England poetry slam venues is always a ton of fun! As the adage goes — the point isn’t the points, the point is the poetry! 💖

Want to see these teams in action again? Head up to Boston July 31st to August 2nd for the NorthBeast Regional Poetry Slam & Festival (@northbeastregional)! 🏆

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this upcoming Untitled Open Mic we are bringing a Mill City Summer 4x4 - inviting some of the Northeast best poetry slam teams to battle it out with poems and performance!

It just so happens to be a reunion featuring @slamfreeordie from Manchester NH, @bostonpoetryslam from Boston/Cambridge, MA and @provslam from Providence RI ‼️

guarantee a dope show with great poets. Slide through @dragonflycafelowell Wednesday July 1st. We are starting at 6pm ✨

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Poetry Book Club Announcement!!
@thepoetrypour x @symposiumbooks
Friday, June 26th @ 7pm
Moderator and organizer @salena_jd

This month - we are reading - The Tradition by Jericho Brown @jerichobrown1 (Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry)

Poetry Book Club is free and open to all. No RSVP needed.

If needed, copies available @symposiumbooks - in store or online.

Jericho Brown’s daring book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we’ve become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown’s mastery, and his invention of the duplex—a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues—is testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while reveling in a celebration of contradiction.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrybookclub #bookclub #independentbookshop

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Join RI Youth Poetry Ambassador Josselyn Wolf this Friday, May 29th, at AS220!

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Celebrate the anniversary of The Spiral this Saturday, May 23rd after you explore Wickford Village! 🌀♥️

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