Attend a Poetry Reading

As a follow up to yesterday's post...one of the ways I'm celebrating NPM is to attend poetry readings.  I was in Houston this weekend so I googled local poetry readings and found the Creative Juices Group on Meetup.com.  I attended tonight's event, Open Mic Nite at Zanzibar in Houston.


The evening started  as the guest host of the evening, J Speaks, warmed up the crowd with a few pieces including "Happy."


The first person to the mic tonight was our Creative Juices meetup host, T. Augustus, who describes himself as one who is not a poet but one who "just tells stories that rhyme," told us a story about "a guy named Don Juan....who made everybody wonder what the heck he was on..."


Fertile Spirit was next to the mic and she shared with us, "Stand" and "Womanhood."


Unique Ubantu, from Atlanta read one of my favorites of the evening, "Black."


The feature poet for the evening was Softly Spoken and she treated us to three lovely poems about relationships from the woman's point of view.


The evening was wrapped up up with a acapella song by T. Augustus.


DJ Fire took over rocking the spot for the rest of the evening.