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Robin Bobo is a Chicago based spoken word artist, poet, and author whose voice has been featured on stages across the world. A multiNational Spoken Word Award winner and member of The Collective slam team, Robin is known for her … Continue reading →

William Walrond Strangmeyer was born in Roanoke, Virginia, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and Brofus, New Jersey, where he went to Rugrats University, starting out as a classics major, changing to musicology and finishing with an abnormal psychology, … Continue reading →

Kim B Miller is a multi-disciplinary performing artist. She is Prince William County, Manassas & Manassas Park, Virginia US Poet Laureate Emerita and the (first and only) Black Poet Laureate for that region. Her poems have been published in an … Continue reading →

Floyd Humphrey–“I started writing poems in school while I was studyig English litterature and I copied they style of Keats, Byron and Yeats. Many years later I was advised by the Liverpool poet Brian Patten to find my own voice … Continue reading →

Irish poet Judymay Murphy lives in London and performs her poetry on stages all around the world including at the annual UNICEF Galas in London and Vienna. She’s a double graduate of Trinity College Dublin’s Samuel Beckett Centre for Drama … Continue reading →

Alice Gretton is an award winning spoken word artist, painting tapestries with words and performance. Kent’s poet for National Poetry Day 2019. Alice has won the United Kingdom Young Artist award, received mentoring from Canterbury’s Poet Laureate Lemn Sissay, and … Continue reading →

Here are the coming themes (feel free to ignore them!) and special guest poets! Sept 1st — Summer’s End — no guest, entirely open micSept 8th — Space — Alice GrettonSept 15th — Roads — Judymay MurphySept 22nd — Obsession … Continue reading →

Unfortunately the 28th July SpokenWord has had to be cancelled due to illness. So the summer break is starting a little earlier than planned. SpokenWord will start up again Monday 1st September at the Chat Noir. Cheers all, David Barnes

Emmet O’Brien burst into the scene in March 2017, and has done more than your average 25 year old. Within the first 3 years alone he released a book, entitled “A Perspective From The Corrupt Mind Of The Youth” aswell … Continue reading →

Heidi Seaborn is the author of three books of poetry, tic tic tic, (September 2025), An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe, Give a Girl Chaos, and three chapbooks, Bite Marks, Once a Diva and Finding My Way Home. She’s won or been shortlisted for over sixty prizes, including … Continue reading →