Sun, Feb 09
|Phoenix Books Rutland
Poetry Open Mic
Come to read, come to listen, or come for both!
Time & Location
Feb 09, 2020, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Phoenix Books Rutland, 2 Center St, Rutland, VT 05701, USA
About the Event
Join us for an afternoon of poetry hosted by Phoenix Books Rutland’s own Poet-in-Residence Bianca Amira Zanella.
Come to read, come to listen, or come for both! Those interested in reading can sign up at the door.
ABOUT THE EVENT HOST: Bianca Amira Zanella is a Vermont-based performance poet, paper artist, and events coordinator, as well as the Poet-in-Residence at Phoenix Books Rutland. Zanella’s poems have most recently appeared in The Rutland Herald, The Mountain Troubadour, and The Reverie. In 2019, Bianca acted as Wellness Coordinator for the Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam (FEMS) tournament based in Cambridge, MA, and founded “Infinite Lit: a night of spoken word poetry,” co-producing this series alongside Michael Kingsbury around Rutland County. In 2020, Bianca founded and is the owner of The Paper Poet, offering healing poetic experiences. She will be competing in the Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWPS) in Dallas, Texas, in March 2020, and continues to perform around the United States.
This event is free and open to all.