Open Mic @ home.stead
When:
Friday, Sep 06, 2019 7:00p -
9:30p
Friday, Sep 06, 2019 7:00p -
9:30p
Where:
home.stead bakery & cafe
1448 Dorchester Ave.
Boston, MA 02122
Admission:
$5
Categories:
Alcohol, Art, Date Idea, Food, LGBT, Meetup, Music, Nightlife, Performing Arts, Social Good
The next Unearthed open mic is fast approaching. On September 6th at Home.stead bakery & cafe we're hosting some very special guests - musician and story teller Ryan Alvanos and an incredibly rare treat in the shape of poet Keetje Kuipers - who'll be visiting from the Pacific Northwest.
And, of course, we can't wait to hear you - please bring poetry and music to share with us.
Keetje Kuipers is the author of three books of poems, including Beautiful in the Mouth (BOA, 2010), winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and a Poetry Foundation bestseller. Her second collection, The Keys to the Jail (2014), was a book club pick for The Rumpus, and her third book, All Its Charms (2019), includes poems honored by publication in both The Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Narrative, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, Orion, The Believer, and over a hundred other magazines. Her poems have also been featured as part of the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series and read on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac. Kuipers has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a Bread Loaf fellow, and the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident, among other honors. She now teaches at Seattle’s Hugo House and serves as Senior Editor at Poetry Northwest.
Ryan Alvanos is a poet by training, storyteller by trade, songwriter by passion, busker by calling, and whim-blown vagabond by good fortune.
He likes to walk while writing lyrics, and draft after draft, his notebooks fill with lines and strikethroughs until the songs sing themselves.
With the wisdom of a stream’s biggest fish and the whim of an anecdotal angler, Sharp Little Hooks (2014) sheds new light on the old-school art of fly fishing. The recording features The Blue Ribbons—James Rohr, Mike Castellana, Jef Charland, and Tauras Biscus—and is available as a 12” vinyl record, CD, and digital download.
From Here (2011) is a collection of songs that study places and shimmy between East and West, abundance and scarcity, and between taking off and staying put. This album also features a heaping helping of local-crème musicians, including Tom Bianchi, Raleigh Green, Sean Staples, Eric Royer, Dan Blakeslee, and Vance Gilbert.
Ryan is plowing the middle ground between Woody and Waits with songs that stroke your chin and get your itch like big nibs scratching coarse stock.
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