Wednesday, September 10th 2025
BloodSkinLand Productions presents
VerBaLizAtiOn
Poetry 4 The People
Boston's longest-running open mic gathering for 25 years continuously bring artistic expression in poetry/spoken word, rhyme, song and good vibes. We're returning from a one-month hiatus to enjoy an evening of poetry this summer.
@ Hibernian Hall
184 Dudley St. - 3rd floor, Roxbury (Nubian Square)
7:00pm - 9:30pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
*please arrive before or on time to allow the night to go smoothly
Hosted by VCR
With featured poet CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON
Christopher Johnson is an artist and educator based in Providence, RI. His passion for performance art began with winning numerous awards as a Slam Poet. Christopher’s spoken word poetry has been influenced by artists such as Yusuf Komunyakaa, Amiri Baraka, Sonya Sanchez, Nikki DeGeovanni, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, and Charles Bukowski. Over the years, his performances have grown to included storytelling, music, and dance. They have become theatrical experiences exploring issues such as race, incarceration, and mental illness. Most recently, Christopher was a collaborator in the creation and performance of Freedom Project, a devised performance focusing on the affects of mass incarceration. His current project, New and Dangerous Ideas, tackles race and police. New and Dangerous Ideas is in development, with the goal to put everyone on the level of human. In other words, Christopher seeks to decriminalize race and humanize the police. Community building and education are at the center of all of Christopher’s work. Expression is his activism.
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