Join us to listen to some poetry—or share some writing of your own—at Poetry in the Boro at Dapper Owl on Sunday evening, November 17. Our feature will be Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and poet Kevin Max. Read more about Kevin below.
The features will be at 6:00, with open mic to follow. Drip coffee and light snacks will be available at no charge. However, we hope that you’ll order from Dapper Owl’s tasty menu to help make this a winning collaboration for all of us! Their menu includes coffee, tea, beer, cider, and baked goods.
About the open mic
Open mic readers can share poetry or spoken word: 2 poems or four minutes, whichever comes first. Reading a favorite poem by another writer is fine, too. Sign up for the open mic on site.
We always ask that readers be prepared to keep their pieces “PG-13” depending on our venue and audience, which sometimes includes younger people.
The Dapper Owl coffee pub is located at 2412 East Main St. just past its intersection with Rutherford Blvd., on the east side of the MTSU campus. Overflow parking is on the Arnold Lane side of the building – pull in straight toward the building to allow more cars to fit (careful of the AC unit!) or park on the side of road down Arnold Lane (please don’t block any driveways).
About our feature
Kevin Max is a four-time Grammy award-winning singer who lives in Arrington, TN, with his wife, four kids, and two cats. Along with pursuing the musical arts, Max is an abstract painter and published poet. His first book of poetry, At the Foot of Heaven, was published in 1994. This book set him up as one of the pioneers of spoken word performance as his poetry was used in several musical releases. In 2019, he created a spoken word musical album titled Radio Teknika with the band 3kStatic. In 2020, he was published a second time by Quoir, with the art book Alchemy at 55, featuring poetry and original abstract paintings.
Max is influenced by the Beat Poets and by early Romantic writers including Bukowski, Lord Byron, and Charles Baudelaire.
Challenge words
Here are our challenge words, chosen by our community at our last gathering. If you like, write a new piece to share that includes one, some, or ALL of these words:
paint | supple | dally | golden | smoke | redemption | thickening | disease | race | provocative
Your donations are appreciated
ADMISSION IS FREE. A DONATION of $5 is appreciated to help us offset our costs. You can donate using PayPal at paypal.me/poetryintheboro. We also accept donations on site.
Poetry in the Boro thanks MTSU Write and the Rutherford Arts Alliance for their on-going partnerships and support.