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Raluca Petrescu was born in 1990 in Iași, Romania. She integrated the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris in 2012, and finished a MA in Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne, working on Shakespeare, Fernando Pessoa, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. She writes … Continue reading →

Open Secret! A Very Open Mic 😉 Wednesdays underground @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais, 5è Paris. At 8pm, nightlong sign-up starts, & at 9 le spectacle! Guest performers: gifted writer/musicians Samuél & Aaron Lopez-Barrantes! Theme: Auld … Continue reading →

Filippa is a 24-year-old native Swede who currently resides in Montmartre. She spent recent years in London earning a degree in English Lit and Creative Writing. Her poems have featured in magazines as well as an anthology, and she is … Continue reading →

Open Secret ~ that intimate open mic, Wednesdays underground @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais , 5è. At 8pm nightlong sign-up starts, & at 9 the show! Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4). Theme:“Everybody fall in … Continue reading →

Anna Polonyi is a Franco-American-Hungarian poet and writer. Her first collection of poems, Wayword, is forthcoming with Finishing Line Press in February 2017. She is the former recipient of a Fulbright fellowship in Germany and the 2015 Sylvia Beach Short Fiction Prize, … Continue reading →

Open Secret! That intimate SpokenWord Paris open mic, Wednesdays underground @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais  in Paris’ Latin Quarter…At 8pm, nightlong sign-up begins, & at 9 le sptacle! Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4). … Continue reading →

Open Secret runs every Wednesday with no holiday break. SpokenWord: Dec 5th NOSTALGIA — Amruta Prabhu Dec 12th LETTERS HOME — Anna Polonyi Dec 19th GIFTS — Filippa Bahrke The Other Writers’ Group: Dec 4th Dec 11th Dec 18th SpokenWord … Continue reading →

Amruta Prabhu was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and is a Paris-based polyglot and translator by day and poet, writer, photographer and dancer by night. Drawing heavily from both her Indian culture and love for Europe, her inspiration comes … Continue reading →

Multilingual poet/performer Philip Meersman (1971) pushes boundaries of poetry in both written and spoken form, drawing on current affairs, socio-political and environmental issues. He is the author of the poetry collection This Is Belgian Chocolate: Manifestations of Poetry. He is … Continue reading →