10.19.22 | Event Recap and Photos from our Untitled Open Mic and Halloween Poetry Party

It was pretty scary (especially when Ricky Orng, dressed as a Ball Hog, read his Headless Horseman poem), but we survived and even had a lot of fun! 

In the end, the oldest Dead Poet (by more than a thousand years) won the slam: Sappho, read by Max Delorey, walked off with the top prize. Close behind was the most contemporary of the Dead Poets in attendance, Dr. Suess (read by Kat Christakis), but we also had Wallace Stevens, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Berryman, Hafiz, and Rabindranath Tagore in the house.

Two of the Jack Kerouac Contest winners from Lowell High School, Gabriella Martins and Nophea Vicheth  read in a spotlight feature, the pumpkins were passed around, table to table, and covered with poetry and pictures, Dr. Dougie won the bad joke contest (obviously, since he was the only contestant), and we closed out the night with a costume contest decided by the roar of the crowd!

In other words, a ghoulish good time was had by all.