Season’s Greetings, Poets & Friends!
Please SAVE the DATE + plan to join me at Waterbean Poetry on DECEMBER 17 when I’ll host a special edition OPEN MIC NIGHT!
Yes, it’s a week early due to Christmas. And, yes, it’s all Open Mic readings this month, no featured program. I decided I’d rather close out the 2025 season by giving you all more time at the mic. In the spirit of the holidays, my birthday, and wrapping up the 2025 Waterbean calendar with joy, let’s celebrate our amazing, inclusive, creative community—I’m celebrating YOU!
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UNIQUE EVENT GUIDELINES
Please read carefully:
•• Arrive & sign up in person by 6:45. While spots are less limited for this month’s event, they always go fast! No holds.
•• Bring up to five (5) poems, but plan to read four (4). One page or less per poem.
•• Time Limit: Each poet will have six (6) minutes at the mic, all in, so keep intros brief. (Practice reading at home if you’re unsure of timing.)
•• A lottery round—time permitting & at host’s discretion—will decide who gets a 2nd trip to the mic to read a 5th one-page poem.
•• Door Prize! All attendees eligible to win.
As always, if you sign up to read, please stay to hear & support your fellow poets.
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7:00–8:45 PM (venue closes at 9:00)
WEDNESDAY • 17 DECEMBER 2025
Waterbean Coffee - Huntersville
9705 Sam Furr Rd., Ste. A
Huntersville, NC 28078
in NorthCross Shopping Center
(corner of NC-73 & US-21)
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The TINY TABLETOP LIBRARY, dedicated in Memory of Poet Mike James (1970–2023), offers FREE, generously donated poetry (books, chapbooks, journals, & anthologies) for you to peruse, take home, enjoy, & share when you’re done. Poetry donations are welcomed & appreciated. See pinned post on our Facebook page for full details.
Please mark yourself GOING to this EVENT if you’ll attend.
Kindly support the venue & baristas, & featured poets if you can.
As your host, my MISSION is to foster diversity, kindness, community, & peace through poetry.
Event is FREE & open to the public, part of Waterbean Poetry's monthly reading series that offers an INCLUSIVE, SAFE SPACE for all poets & friends of poetry.
Peace & poetry for all,
Leslie
Leslie M. Rupracht
Host/Co-founder • Ally • Community Builder
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