

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Poetry+Prose Reading & Open Mic at Phinista Café, Cambridge
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Featured poets: Kevin Gallagher (poetry), Susan Monsky (fiction), Gary Whited (poet). Followed by open mic in this wonderful Vietnamese cafe.

Kevin Gallagher is a poet and publisher living in Greater Boston.  His new book, Diving at the Moon, will be published by Spuyten Duyvil Press in 2026.  Previous books are And Yet it Moves (MadHat, 2023), and the Wild Goose (Loom, 2022).  Gallagher edits spoKe, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics.

Susan Monsky grew up in Montgomery, Alabama. Her writing is steeped in that experience. She has lived in Brookline for many years with her family of neighbors and dear, dear friends. She has a little bit of hope for the future.

Gary Whited is a poet, philosopher and psychotherapist. His first book titled, Having Listened, won the 2013 Homebound Publications Poetry Contest. In 2014 it received a Benjamin Franklin Silver Book Award, and in 2015 was translated into Russian and a bilingual edition was published. His new book, Being, There includes new poems along with his translation of the ancient Greek fragments of Parmenides from the 5th century BCE. This book dances between the poetic voice of Parmenides and the poetic remembrances of a young life on a prairie cattle ranch. His poems have appeared in journals, including Salamander, Plainsongs, The Aurorean, Atlanta Review, Comstock Review, The Wayfarer, Poetry Daily and The Red Letters.

Please bring something for the open mike! Open mike will follow the featured readers.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/poetryprose-reading-and-open-mic-at-phinista-café-cambridge/200029675365044
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, open-mic, contests
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 19

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Cambridge
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Phinista Cafe, 1876 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140
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- **long**: -71.11962
- **full address**: Phinista Cafe, 1876 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140, United States

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- **organizer**: Philip Nikolayev (https://allevents.in/org/philip-nikolayev/25419599)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Phinista Cafe, 1876 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Philip Nikolayev
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, open-mic, contests
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Poetry+Prose Reading & Open Mic at Phinista Café, Cambridge ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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