Each Friday for Books Best Bets, we’ll round up our top literary picks for the week ahead — from author events and book signings to spoken word open mics, story times for your little ones and more. FRIDAY, 6/14 Phoenix & Dragon Bookstore. Poetry Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Find your place in a unique…
Each Friday for Books Best Bets, we’ll round up our top literary picks for the week ahead — from author events and book signings to spoken word open mics, story times for your little ones and more. SATURDAY, 6/8 Apache Cafe. So Soul Saturdays Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. Gear up Saturday for another Apache…
Where do Atlanta’s poets, storytellers and freestylers launch their careers or bring home their successes? As with almost everything else in our city, the answer is changing. Java Monkey, a longtime spoken-word mainstay in Decatur, burned down this past November. In February, the owners of Apache Cafe — a locally and nationally renowned institution in…
In honor of National Poetry Month, ARTS ATL is publishing three stories that offer different perspectives on the state of the city’s spoken word community, including a personal essay by poet Amena Brown on finding her poetic voice, an oral history of spoken word institution, Apache Cafe and a long-form feature on how gentrification impacts literary communities. Lean…
In honor of National Poetry Month, ARTS ATL is publishing three stories that offer different perspectives on the state of the city’s spoken word community, including a personal essay by poet Amena Brown on finding her poetic voice, an oral history of spoken word institution, Apache Cafe and a long-form feature on how gentrification impacts literary communities. Lean…
Each Friday, we’ll round up our top literary picks for the week ahead – from author events and book signings, to spoken word open mics, story times for your little ones and more. Saturday, March 16 Andrew Dietz’s Courtyard. Wine, Whiskey, & Words with SUGAR LAND author tammy lynne stoner. 6 p.m. Join Andrew Dietz…
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