Say What Poetry Open Mic & Feature Asma Abike at Coffee Underground

Say What?! Open Mic is at Coffee Underground on Sunday with Feature Asma Abike! Host Kendra Murphy. All poetry styles welcome! The night will also feature open mic slots for local poets on a first-come, first serve basis. Open mic poets may read/recite one poem.

Say What?! feature Asma Abike is a poet, painter, and teaching artist from Charlotte, North Carolina, by way of Houston, Texas. She is a first-generation Nigerian-American Muslim woman. She is the inaugural Blackberry Peach National Slam Champion, a 2-time Charlotte Grand Slam Champion, Southern Fried Poetry Slam finalist, a Women of the Word Poetry Slam finalist, winner of the Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Prize, and a Watering Hole graduate fellow. Her work appears in the North Carolina Literary Review, Anaheim Literary Review, Lucky Jefferson, and Epiphany.

Coffee Underground, Greenville, SC 29601. 7:30 pm. $10. Produced by Wits End Poetry.