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🔥 POETS, THIS ONE’S FOR YOU! 🔥

Think you’ve got what it takes to take home $200? 🎤💰 Join us Sunday, November 1st at 8 PM EST for the Free Yourself $200 Online Poetry Slam!

✨ 2 Rounds
💻 LIVE on Zoom
🏆 $200 Prize
🎙️ Hosted by Simba X

Ready to compete? Text “POETRY” to 407-893-1374 to enter!

Tag a poet who needs to be in this slam 👇🏾🔥

Follow @freeyourselfllc for updates!

#poetryslam #wanpoetry #poetrymeplease #voicesinpower #poetryslam

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WE ARE AWARE?

Are you??

Tickets available on Eventbrite

FREE (donations appreciated)***

Great Publishing LLC in conjunction with The Athenaeum presents the 10th Annual AWARE! event curated by Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association’s Poet in Residence, KaNikki Jakarta.

Saturday, October 17, 2026

Doors open at 12:30 pm

Event 1 pm - 3 pm

201 Prince Street Alexandria, Virginia 22314 in the gallery.

AWARE! is a community-based collaboration with a mission to entertain and inform the community. Ten (10) pre-selected poets, musicians, and storytellers will provide an artistic awareness that focuses Women's mental health, domestic violence awareness, a Journey with Lyme Disease: Managing Life with a Chronic Illness, political unrest, power of poetry and voice, an unlove letter from those who mourn the living and other important topics bringing forth their knowledge, personal experiences, and perspectives!

There will be a brief open mic

Donations are appreciated.

Space is limited and RSVP is required.

PRESENTERS:

Analysis

Buddah Desmond

Gravy

Mel Da Evangelist

NKENGAFAC Kole-Kole

Poetic Soul

Simply Sherri

Tyauna Bruce

Wal Poet

Wendi Kaplan

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🎤🔥 ONLINE POETRY SLAM IS BACK! 🔥🎤

Poets, it’s time to bring your BEST bars to the virtual stage! 📝💥

📅 Sunday, September 20th
⏰ 8 PM EST
💻 ONLINE — Compete from anywhere!
🎤 2 ROUNDS
💰 $25 ENTRY

Think you’ve got what it takes? 👀🔥 Step up, spit your truth, and let the judges decide!

📲 TO SIGN UP:
Text “POETRY” to 407-893-1374

🚨 Spots are limited — lock yours in early!

Tag a poet who needs to be in this slam! 👇🏽🎤🔥

#poetryslam #slam #charmcityslam #wanpoetry #voicesinpower

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“Mayari Voices 2026: A Celebration of Poetry & Music Under the Gaze of the Moon” brings together six poets for an afternoon of readings inspired by everything astounding in our lives birthed beneath the moon’s steady gaze.

Hosted by CP MAZE and featuring past and present contributors to Mayari Literature Magazine. Our featured poets are:

HENRY L. JONES • PATRICIA CARRAGON • RAY WHITAKER • TERRI ROSE-JERTSON • TOMMI AVICOLLI MECCA • WALKER VALDEZ (Walpoet)

Scan QR code or go to link in bio to get your tickets to this special event.

#mayariliterature #mayarivoices #poets #poetrycommunity #creatives

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We are so happy to present to you our third quarterly issue of Mayari Literature’s volume 3, “Weathering Storms.”

When we weather a storm, we participate in the sky’s ancestral alchemy. Under our Goddess Moon’s silvered eye, we are not simply enduring the wind, we allow it to strip away what is become brittle—what remains is sacred & rooted.

Our most sincere and profuse gratitude to everyone involved in this issue: to our guest editor, Martin Parker, for the wisdom he shares with every word, to our associate editor, Marianne Tefft for her the gift of her insight, keen eye, and her time and energy, and to our contributing editor, Neil Daswani for the incredible essay he concocted on the mythos behind a storm. Our deepest “thank you” to the poets & writers whose work appears in this edition:

Bryan Franco
David Thompson
Deborah C. Segal
Doc Janning
Elizabeth Welles
Erica Blumfield
Henry L. Jones
Jennifer (Soy Avocado) Leong
Julian Matthews
Laura Grevel
Logan Noble
Lucia Daramus
Marianne Tefft
Martin Parker
Martina Gallegos
Meher Pestonji
Neil Daswani
Patricia Carragon
Ravichandra Chittampalli
Richard Spisak
Shwetha A
Walker Valdez

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Scan the QR code on the flyer or go to link in bio to subscribe to this publication
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#mayariliterature #mayariliterature #weatheringstorms #thisislife #literarymagazine

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Say it with me~

I remember that every regime fears people who can still think.

Daily Affirmation 🕯
#dailyaffirmations #affirmations #motivation #manifestation #manifest #fightfascism #endtheregime #fuckdonaldtrump #riseup #nofear #thisisamerica

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🌌👁️ Step into The Ancient’s Perspective Thursday and discover the wisdom of the ancients mixed with modern consciousness. 📜✨

We explore esoteric knowledge, ancient history, and mind-expanding truths to help you grow spiritually and mentally. 🧠🌠

📅 Every 2nd & 4th Thursday
⏰ 7:30 PM EST
📻 WNTTStation
Open your mind. Learn something new. Elevate your soul. 🚀💡

🔥 From November to February we talking about THE REPTILIAN RACE DRACONIANS

#AncientWisdom,
#draconians,
#reptile
#TheNetworkDirectory,
#WNTTStation,

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Upcoming Events! 😊🍁

Last week, I had the pleasure of performing for UDC’s Black Law Students Association 🌟

Tonight, I will also be performing and reading at @coffeehousepoetry_openmic ☕️✨

More info on these events coming soon! Excited for each of these opportunities and I hope you can make it out 🩶🙌🏾

#shewrites #shegotwords #livefree #stayalive #poetryisart #poetrysaveslives #swroots #saltwaterroots #poetrygalleryanopenmic #dmv #dc #pgcounty #dcpoet #blackpoet #blackpoetry #blackart #blackartistry #artistry #blackauthor #poetry #poetrycoummunity #locs #livepoetry

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Hey 👋🏾 I have a few upcoming events and I would love to see you there! 😊✨

This Saturday, I am performing live poetry + music at Mount Rainier Porch Fest @cityofmountrainier 🙌🏾💫

This Sunday, I am hosting Poetry Gallery: An Open Mic @_poetry_gallery w/ @whereisalexpin at Station 3510! @station_3510 💥

Grateful for these opportunities🌟 More info coming soon for the October events. Dm me if you have any questions! 💚💚🍁

**Update: Coffeehouse performance has moved to Nov. 3rd. Same time! 💎

#shewrites #shegotwords #livefree #poetryisart #poetrysaveslives #poetrygalleryanopenmic #poetrygallery #poetry #poetrycommunity #spokenword #livepoetry #blackpoetry #blackart #blackartistry #artistry #dmv #dc #pgcountymd #irl #fall2025 #locs #dcevents #blackpoet

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Hey Groovy People. COMING ON SEPTEMBER 21 FROM 5-7PM, Washington Writer’s Publishing House and Busboys & Poets are hosting the first in-person reading for the WWPH anthology entitled, AMERICA’S FUTURE: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow. Elnathan Starnes, owner of Groovy Nate LLC, has two poems in the anthology and he will read both pieces at the event. This is not the Groovy Nate children’s show one is familiar with (lots of hats are worn here).

This event is FREE and open to all. Check out the link here for ticket information:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/americas-future-a-wwph-busboys-and-poets-books-presentation-tickets-1583009577259

You can learn more about this magnificent anthology, and Washington Writer’s, Publishing House from the link below:

https://www.washingtonwriters.org/

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Let’s take a trip to the East Coast and listen to the brilliant poetry of @walpoet82 Link in bio

#poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #chicanopoetry #zonasananto #sanantonio music by @missponyboy1

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Tune in to the Zona San Anto Podcast on May 29 and listen to the incredible poetry of @walpoet82 #sanantoniopoetry #poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #chicanopoetry #zonasananto #sanantonio #thelighthouselounge #podcast

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