2nd Verse was voted BEST Open Mic in the Country!!! (2011 National Poetry Awards) Come see why and share your creativity. We encourage all poets and creative people to join us and share their talents every 2nd Friday. Great location with plenty of seats and parking, but place gets packed so don't come late. Full bar, DJ and an awesome night of intellectual entertainment. Continental Cafe 6390 FairdaleDrive $5 Cover Doors Open @ 9pm Poetry 9:45pm -12am Neo Soul, R & B, Jazz and Spoken Word Poetry …

Serving Others Using Language, or SOUL SLAM...is a group of Austin Writers and Poets and Spoken Word performers who desire to come together and not only write and better their work as a group, but who also hope to better the world around them with their words. The group is open to people of all different backgrounds, beliefs, and levels of experience in the field of writing. Whether you love reading poetry, and merely appreciate it as an art form, or whether you are working on being published or …

a community exhibit of words: spoken, written, & sung

We welcome non-writers, as well! We are a group of people who express our mess of words in short, perfunctory pulses. There is no room for cliché (and hardly any for adjective) in our work. We want to be moved by others, and we hope to do the moving from time to time. We encourage writing with truth, clarity, and passion, and love it when reciting borders on Slam. Come to watch, read, share, recite, laugh, and drink (beer or coffee, depending on the time of day). Don't come to feed us rainbows. …

We are musicians, comedians, poets, magicians, jugglers, actors, dancers etc...people who enjoy performing or watching performances from local artists and amateur talent. We are dedicated to promoting and encouraging local Austin performers. We plan Open Mic Nights for amateurs and look for late night music acts to perform in North Austin.