Now and forever the 3rd Wednesday is Untitled!
April 17, 6 to 9 pm
Middlesex Community College Night!
We celebrate the poetry community of Middlesex with
Raymond Anganes, Ariadna Muñoz, Lexi Perry, & Olivia Steen
Current & Former students in the MCC Writing Program
Plus our unusual, unabashed, unabated
UNTITLED OPEN MIC!
You don’t have to have a connection to MCC to read, but it may help!
Bring your own musings — amusing. reflective, or agitating —
And participate in our open mic before the reading — or just sit back and take it all in!
All styles and voices welcome!
Hosted at Coffee and Cotton at Mill No. 5. Located in a historic downtown textile building, Mill No. 5 is a destination into what Lowell is; home to independent shops, The Luna Theatre, the Farm Market, and Coffee and Cotton. Coffee and Cotton is the heart of the building, serving up coffee, espresso, and lattes, wine, local craft beer, delicious, made to order, locally sourced options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It is also a venue for live music, game nights, community events, and now our Untitled Open Mic.
/// About our Featured Poets ///
Raymond Anganes, a recent graduate of Middlesex Community College, is primarily an American writer of creature horror, surrealist adventure, and human kindness. His work in the field of biotech, his affinity for wilderness camping, and his fascination with the natural world around him have inspired two fully realized novels (Soul Herder and Europan Reef Gold) and thousands of pages of sci-fi and fantasy fiction, some of which has been published in Dead River Review. He works as a genetics lab technician and a middle school archery coach, and one of the few physical copies of his first, still unpublished novel, resides in the McMurdo Station Antarctica Library.
Ariadna Muñoz is a twenty-six-year-old Mexican American poet and visual artist living in Massachusetts. The nature of her work is sacrilegious; it merges religious trauma, womanhood, and philosophy through a decolonial lens. She is graduating this May with a degree in Creative Writing from Middlesex Community College and will be entering Smith College in the fall as an English major.
Lexi Perry is a Creative Writing student at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and a recent graduate of Middlesex Community College. Her work has been published in Venture, Dead River Review– Issues #7 and #8, the 2023 La Guagua Poetry Anthology: The Path Belongs to Us, and in the upcoming 2024 edition of The Offering. When not reading poetry or prose, she is often reading and revising résumés at work as a cybersecurity recruiter. She lives in downtown Lowell with her husband and guinea pigs.
Olivia Steen is an aspiring poet and writer. She is currently a full-time student while also working at a bookstore in Nashua. This is her last semester at Middlesex Community College before continuing her education. Her poetry has been published in Dead River Review literary magazine, where she also served as an editor.
/// Format ///
Sign-Ups Open @ 6pm
Open Mic Starts @ 6:30 pm
Poetry Feature begins after the open reading.
All Done @ 9:00pm
/// Details ///
Free Admission
Food, Drink, and Merch for Sale
@ Coffee & Cotton
250 Jackson St. No. 401
Lowell, Mass. 01852
https://millno5.com/directions/
Also streaming online
Lowell Poetry is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Middlesex Community College Night! @ Untitled Open Mic Time: Apr 17, 2024 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87944402127
Meeting ID: 879 4440 2127
Passcode available on request; email lowellpoetry@gmail.com
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdJMFrxILw
/// Safer Space & Community Guidelines ///
We strive to foster a space of inclusivity and respect. We ask everyone to not bring (in no particular order) ableist, ageist, body shaming, classist, homophobic, misogynist, misandrist, racist, transphobic, oppressive language, attitudes, and actions at the space. We look to hold ourselves and one another accountable to creating a culture in which we treat each other with consent and respect. This includes but is not limited to respecting people's physical and emotional boundaries and receiving explicit verbal consent before touching someone or crossing other personal boundaries. If you are disrupting our safer space we will ask you to leave.
/// Zoom Guidelines /// (Online)
1.) Some best practices suggest being somewhere with minimal background noise and good lighting, use headphones if possible, and close any applications not being used on your device to improve Zoom quality.
2.) It is best to have your display on “Speaker View” to see the host and performer. “Gallery View” will allow you to see all guests at once.
3.) Feel free to add a name and pronoun into your display so we can say hello and know who is joining us. Keep in mind that this event is streaming publicly so take any precautions about sharing your identity.
4.) Guests could also have “Video” on or off, as that is optional.5.) During performances/readings the host will “Mute” all other guests.
6.) Guests are encouraged to show love and gratitude visually on screen or in the chat window.
7.) Please be respectful on screen and in the chat window - and acknowledge the space you can take up in this digital communal platform.
8.) Host will allow guests to un-mute after performances if they choose and able to out loud affirmations or gratitudes.
9.) Any conflicts to the safer space / community guidelines the host may remove you from the Zoom call. If you feel like you have been accidentally or wrongfully removed, please reach out to the organizers.
Please reach out to here with questions regarding the open mic or slam.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the American Rescue Plan, as administered by the City of Lowell’s office of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.