Virtual Poetry Open Mic

Join us on Zoom to read or to listen. Those interested in reading can sign up at the beginning of the meeting, via the Zoom Chat Box feature.

ABOUT THE EVENT HOST: Bianca Amira Zanella (she/they) is a queer Vermont-based performance poet, multidisciplinary artist, and poetic medicine healer. Zanella serves the community using poetry as a path to wholeness as The Paper Poet, designing experiences to decrease hardship while increasing heartship. Her poems have appeared in Writing by Heart, The Artful Mind, and The Mountain Troubadour. She received the Corrine Eastman Davis Memorial Award, Arthur Wallace Peach Memorial Award, and is the former President of the Poetry Society of Vermont. Zanella’s experimental poem-films, interactive sculptural poems, and poem-paintings have been on exhibit with PoemCity Montpelier, Merwin Gallery, SPACE Pop Up Gallery, and Stone Valley Arts.

This event is free and open to all. Registration is required. Please sign up on our website.

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