Brooklyn Poets Friday Night Open begins with an open mic and culminates in readings by two featured poets. The featured poets on July 26th will be Dante Clark & Ae Hee Lee.
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
Dante Clark is a writer from the Bronx, NY. A two-time Pushcart nominee, his work has been featured in the Root, Afropunk, wildness, Brooklyn Poets’ Poet of the Week, the Slowdown, Adroit Journal and elsewhere. He's received support from organizations including Catapult, Cave Canem, In Surreal Life and NYU's Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House—where he's currently a Goldwater Fellow and MFA Candidate.
Born in South Korea and raised in Peru, Ae Hee Lee is the author of ASTERISM, selected by John Murillo for the 2022 Dorset Prize, and the poetry chapbooks Bedtime || Riverbed, Dear bear and Connotary, which won the 2021 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Ae Hee is a Just Buffalo Literary Center Fellow, Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholar and a recipient of the James Olney Award by the Southern Review. She has received scholarships and honors from the Academy of American Poets, AWP, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conference, among others. You can find her at aeheeleekim.com.