ProvSlam is teaming up with friends at the Imago Gallery in Warren, RI for a special youth writing workshop and open mic! This event is free for youth, and suggested donation of $5 for adults.

Youth Workshop will run from 5-6:30pm. The open mic will follow at 7pm, and will feature ProvSlam staff members.

Learn more about this event and all the cool stuff happening at Imago on their website: https://www.imagofoundation4art.org/copy-of-march-events

ProvSlam is teaming up with friends at Public, a gallery and events space in Providence, to hold a writing workshop and open mic.

ProvSlam staff members Alyssa and Michelle will lead a writing workshop and host the open mic. The workshop will run from 6pm-7pm, after which will be the open mic from around 7pm-9pm.

Admission is sliding scale: Open Mic $5-10, Workshop $10-15. RSVP required, and you can sign up for one, or both portions. If you sign up for the workshop, your RSVP will carry over into the open mic!

Click the links below to learn more about the workshop and sign up!

Workshop RSVP: https://public-classes.square.site/

Open Mic RSVP: https://www.publicshopandgallery.com/event-details-registration/open-mic-2

Join us on Thursday April 18 for an open mic and feature from Alison Rollins! Alison has a brand new book coming out, available at this show! Lets help her celebrate!

Doors open and sign-up sheets are posted at 7pm. Be on time to make sure you have a spot!

Admission is $5 or pay what you can. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

OPEN MIC: open to all artists of all genres, and all ages! Bring your songs, poems, and prose! You'll have 5 minutes MAX on the mic, please be considerate of time! Think 2 short poems (2 minutes each) or 1 long poem or song.

MORE ABOUT OUR FEATURE:

Alison C. Rollins (born and raised in St. Louis city) holds a Master of Fine Arts from Brown University, a Master of Library and Information Science from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a Bachelor of Science from Howard University. Her next poetry collection, Black Bell, is out this April from Copper Canyon Press. Rollins was named a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature fellow in 2019. 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. Rollins has held faculty as well as librarian appointments at various institutions including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Colorado College, and Pacific Northwest College of Art. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Join us on Thursday February 15 for an open mic and a featured performer(TBA)!

Doors open and sign-up sheets are posted at 7pm. Be on time to make sure you have a spot!

Admission is $5 or pay what you can. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

OPEN MIC: open to all artists of all genres, and all ages! Bring your songs, poems, and prose! You'll have 5 minutes MAX on the mic, please be considerate of time! Think 2 short poems (2 minutes each) or 1 long poem or song.

Join us on Thursday November 16 at AS220's main stage for an open mic and open poetry slam! Poets in the poetry slam compete for a chance to qualify to be on our 2024 poetry slam team!

The open mic is open to all artists, all ages, and all genres. Bring your stories, songs, poems, prose, and flash fiction!

The poetry slam is open to poets of all ages. Please have at least 2 poems prepared. Poems should be at or under 3 minutes in length.

Doors open and sign-up sheets are posted at 7pm.
Admission is $5 suggested donation, or pay what you can. No one is turned away!

Join us on Thursday November 2 for an open mic featuring mick powell!

Doors open and sign-up sheet is posted at 7pm. Admission is $5 or pay what you can, no one is turned away.

The open mic is open to all genres and all ages. Bring your stories, music, poems, songs, prose, flash fiction, rantings, and your friends!

MORE ABOUT OUR FEATURE!

m. mick powell is a queer Black Cape Verdean femme, a poet, an artist, an Aries, and author of the chapbooks threesome in the last Toyota Celica (forthcoming) and chronicle the body (2019). A 2023 Tin House Resident and professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, mick enjoys chasing waterfalls and being in love. Keep up with them at www.mickpowellpoet.com or on IG @mickmakesmagic.art.

Join us on Thursday September 7 at AS220 for our first show of our 2023/2024 season! Come through for an open mic and amazing feature by our very own hometown heroes: the 2023 Providence Poetry Slam Team!

Seth, Ren, Kenny and Shomari have been working hard all summer, collaborating together and honing their skills as writers and performers. They’ve been kicking ass at local and regional competitions, and consistently winning first place. Don’t miss this excellent night as we celebrate these talented artists!

Doors open and sign up sheet is posted at 7pm. Admission is $5 or pay what you can.

Join us on Thursday August 31 as we leave our August vacation month for a fresh collaboration show with The Daily Note. We’ll be hosting an open mic and cash poetry slam at Revival Brewing! The open mic is open to all genres, including music! Poets who want to compete in the slam should have at least 2 poems prepared, either memorized or on paper/accessible on your phone. Poems should be at or under 3 minutes in length.

Admission is $15 or pay what you can. No one will be turned away!

Doors open at 7pm! Revival is located at 50 Sims Ave in Providence, RI.

Join us on Thursday April 20 for an open mic and an open poetry slam! This is the LAST SLAM TO QUALIFY for finals!

Doors open, and sign-up sheets are posted at 7pm. Get there on time to make sure you have a spot!

$5 suggested donation, pay what you can. No one is turned away <3

Open Mic : performers have 4-5 minutes max on the mic. Please mind the time, be considerate of fellow readers/performers. Let’s make sure everyone can get some time on stage. Think either 1 long poem, 1 song, or 2 short poems.

Poetry Slam : your last chance to qualify for finals stage in May! Top two poets advance. If you’d like to compete please have 2 -3 poems prepared. They don’t have to be memorized, can be read off your phone or page. Make sure they’re under 3 minutes long! Poems longer than 3 minutes may get you a time penalty.