Join Brooklyn Poets for Friday Night Open, which begins with an open mic and culminates in readings by two featured poets. The featured poets on November 22nd will be Christian J. Collier & Joan Kwon Glass.
6:00 PM: open mic signup begins
6:30 to 7:45 PM: open mic
8 to 8:30 PM: featured readers
Each reader for the open mic can read for up to a four-minute set. Participants can purchase one of eight tickets in advance to reserve an open mic spot. Once those tickets sell out, all other participants who’d like to read for the open mic can purchase a ticket to sign up at the door on a first-come, first-serve basis. There will be time for about 16–18 readers.
Guests can purchase tickets to attend in person at 144 Montague Street or virtually via Zoom (note: virtual guests cannot read for the open mic). For in-person attendance, advance online ticket sales end at 5 PM on the day of the event. After that, tickets for in-person attendance can be purchased at the door until we reach capacity. Tickets for virtual attendance will be available until 6:30 PM. A Zoom link will be emailed to all ticket holders. Participants are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance for in-person attendance, as there are limited seats. Brooklyn Poets members take $5 off.
Note that by participating in the Friday Night Open, you agree to abide by our code of conduct and COVID-19 policy. All in-person attendees for events are currently required to wear masks (regardless of vaccination status) except readers at a safe distance on stage. We will have masks available. Our full policy can be found at the end of the event description. Brooklyn Poets reserves the right to dismiss from our programs any participant found to be in violation of these policies. Thank you for respecting our community.
Closed captions will be available for the event through the Zoom livestream. For more information and to request additional accommodations, contact us at [email protected].
Featured Poets
Christian J. Collier is a Black, Southern writer, arts organizer and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, TN. He is the author of Greater Ghost (Four Way Books, 2024), and the chapbook The Gleaming of the Blade, which was Bull City Press' 2021 Editors’ Selection. His work has appeared in December, North American Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, the Michigan Quarterly Review and elsewhere. A 2015 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellow, he is also the winner of the 2022 Porch Prize in Poetry and the 2020 ProForma Contest from Grist Journal.
Joan Kwon Glass is a Korean diasporic author, winner of the 2024 Perugia Press Poetry Prize for her manuscript Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms and of the Diode Book Prize for Night Swim (Diode Editions, 2022). Joan’s poems have been featured or are forthcoming in Poetry, Poetry Daily, the Slowdown, Poetry Northwest, Passages North, Terrain, Ninth Letter, Rattle, the Margins, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander and elsewhere. She lives in coastal Connecticut. Find her online at www.joankwonglass.com.