Events

The College Slam season is drawing to a close and it’s your last chance to qualify for the UNM/CNM Poetry Slam Team. Come out to Winning Coffee for a great show and wonderful feature set from Wysper!

Poetry & Beer @ Tractor Brewing Wells Park welcomes Adam Stone and Bobby Crawford to Burque! The duo is currently on a nationwide tour and will be performing one night only! Come out to slam or hit up the open mic. Sign up is at 7PM. Hosted by Joseph “Chupa” Romero.

Poetry and Beer welcomes Manuel Gonzalez for a feature promoting his new book, “My Friends Call My Burque.” Open Mic and slam scheduled. As always, Poetry & Beer: Blackbird is the first wednesday of the month. Sign up at 7:30. Show Starts at 8. See you at the Blackbird Buvette.

Come to Winning Coffee 7PM, Wednesday the 19th and Friday the 21st for a feature from Prisoners of Love:
Kevin Holmes and Elizabeth Thorn. The Bay Area’s premier Poetry, Burlesque, and Sideshow duet.

Kevin

*7 Years combined coaching College and NPS poets

•2009 top 20 IWPS rep

•2011 & 2014 made Semifinals at NPS as poet on team Santa Cruz and coach of team Santa Cruz

•Working artist: Digital Media director at Digital Storytellers, edits poetry PSA,s through Youth Speaks, & performs across the bay area in many variety, vaudeville and slam shows.

Elizabeth

*Nationally toured poet

•From S.F. to Oakland; from Layette to Berkeley… Bay area burlesque (and nerdlesque) fixture

*Self employed make-up artist, wigstress, actress, and fetishist