SpokenWord themes & special guests:

(Themes are suggestions to inspire, you don’t have to follow them.)

Autumn 2022 & Winter 2022-2023 themes & special guests:

Sept 5th — la rentrée/the Return
Sept 12th — Boxes
Sept 19th — Denial
Sept 26th — Change — guest poet Anthony Lombardi

Oct 3rd — Taxidermy — guest poet Rufo Quintavalle
Oct 10th — Fruit — guest poet Roarshock
Oct 17th — Borders — guest poet Carrie Chappell
Oct 24th — Suspicion — guest poet Jeff Cottrill with Skylar Wynter & Neshka Turner
Oct 31st — Trick & Treat

Nov 7th — Traps — guest poet Clifton Joseph
Nov 14th — Vague — guest poet Kevin P. Gilday
Nov 21st — Silence
Nov 28th — Shrink — guest poet Emmett O’Brien

Dec 5th — List — guest poet Trudie Gorman
Dec 12th — Midnight snack — guest poet Ann Condron
Dec 19th — Toy

Jan 9th — Changing Places — guest poet Siobhan Hickey
Jan 23rd — Dissidence — Nick Calderbank & friends
Jan 30th — Underground — Jennifer K Dick

Feb 6th — Nuisance — guest poet Alex Vellis
Feb 13th — Cringe — guest poet Kieran Beville
Feb 20th — Pajamas — guest poet Jo Black
Feb 27th — Weather — guest poet Stephen James Smith

Mar 6th — Seeds — guest writer Mia Funk
Mar 13th — Why — guest poet Scott Elder
Mar 20th — Fishy
Mar 27th — Deception — guests Beth Jervis & Clementine West

Apr 3rd — Touch — guest poet Seamus Bradley
Apr 10th — Therapy
Apr 17th — Stranger — guest poet Mary McColley
Apr 24th — Upside-down — guest poet Robert Thorne

May 1st — May Day — guest Maria D’Arcy
May 8th — No
May 15th — Cellphone — guest poet Kristin Sanders
May 22nd — Journey — David Barnes’ book launch
May 29th — Change — guest poet Mark Lipman

Jun 5th — Tempest — guest poet Monalisa Maione
Jun 12th — Boats
Jun 19th — Rapture — guest Nancy Stohlman
Jun 26th — Raw — guest Devin Cohen

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Reckon you’ve got what it takes to be the special guest?
If you’ve got both strong poetry and skill at performance then talk to Antonia Klimenko or David Barnes at SpokenWord on Monday or drop an email to spokenwordparis @ gmail.com

Cheers,
David Barnes