Join us on Thursday May 4 for an open mic, featuring poet Alison Rollins! The stage is open to all genres and art forms. Bring your stories, poems, songs, prose, rants & ravings---and your friends!

Doors open and sign-up sheet is posted at 7pm. The show will start around 7:30/8pm. Please be there when doors open if you want to make sure you have a spot on the open mic!

Admission: $5 or pay what you can. No one is turned away <3

MORE ABOUT OUR EXCELLENT FEATURE:
Alison C. Rollins (she/her) was born and raised in St. Louis city. She is currently an MFA candidate in Literary Arts at Brown University. Rollins holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Howard University and a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In 2019, she was named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature fellow. In 2021, her essay "Dispatch from the Racial Mountain" was selected by contest judge Kiese Laymon as the winner of the Gulf Coast prize in nonfiction. Her work, across genres, has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Iowa Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow, she was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Rollins has been awarded support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and is a recipient of the 2018 Rona Jaffe Writers' Award. A 2020 Pushcart Prize winner, her debut poetry collection Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) was a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. As a Black, queer, woman, her work centers the power of storytelling and nuanced forms of representation. Ultimately, her work explores the fragile line between "human" and "nonhuman" beings, encouraging a social justice focused art practice that seeks to collaborate with plants, animals, and robots.