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Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam

The doors open at 7:30 pm every Sunday and we start with our “Poetry Slam.” The “Featured Poet” will start roughly at 9:00 pm accompanied by the Jeff Robinson Trio. After the Featured Poet, we have our “Open Mic” also accompanied by the Jeff Robinson Trio. There’s $8 cover charge at the door, and the Lizard Lounge is a 21+ venue.

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Vernon "VCR" Robinson is the Featured Poet on Sept Vernon "VCR" Robinson is the Featured Poet on September 13, 2020, at the Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam Zoom Poetry Night.⁠ ⁠ VCR (Vernon C. Robinson) is a Dorchester native born and raised in Boston. He has been writing, reciting and performing poetry/spoken word for two decades, not to mention that he’s been emceeing (rapping) for over 30 years. As a poet, VCR has performed at several local open mic spots and gathering as a feature and participant. Venues include Afrocentrics, the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, The Milky Way Lounge, Ogunnaike Galleria, Strand Theatre, Dudley Café, Haley House and more. He has poetically graced the same stage and opened up for such acts as Dead Prez, S.O.S. Band, Amiri Baraka, Pharoahe Monch, Suheir Hammad, Saul Williams, Lakeside, New Birth, Last Poets, Les Nubians, Jessica Care Moore, Georgia ME, and other well-known artists. Besides the Boston and Cambridge areas, he has taken his poetry at cities and states such as New York (including the famous Nuyorican Poets Café), Atlanta, Chicago, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Dallas, Cleveland, New Hampshire, Baltimore, Oakland, Los Angeles and surprisingly Cuba where he met the legendary Assata Shakur. He has created many annual gatherings which include Winter Words, Maylennium, Devotion…Black Love Day, Megacipher, SistaHood, Body Language, Afro-Cinema, Young Gifted & Black and The Red Black & Green Affair (a dedication to Marcus Garvey). His most recognized gathering is an ongoing event called VerBaLizAtiOn which is currently the longest-running open mic spot in the Boston area of nearly two decades. ⁠ ⁠ The event is a live ZOOM Presentation.⁠ ⁠ Register for an account BEFORE entering this event. Only people with an account will be able to attend. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER or click the “Sign Up” button.⁠ ⁠ If you want to donate using Venmo or PayPal direct payment, send it to admin@onlineschoolofpoetry.org, but you still have to have an account to see the performance. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER or click the “Sign Up” button. Click the button below to donate using a card. NO REFUND⁠ ⁠ https://www.learning.onlineschoolofpoetry.org/courses/poetryjam/⁠
Sara Kahlo is the Featured Poet on September 6, 20 Sara Kahlo is the Featured Poet on September 6, 2020, at the Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam Zoom Poetry Night.⁠ ⁠ Sara is a studying Social Work Masters student at Boston University, who’s interested in using writing as a means of exploring loss, trauma, grief, and ones on identity. She has learned that writing and expressive art has given the power back to those who have fractured pieces of their identities after sexual trauma and domestic abuse. Sara hopes her work will connect and help mend others who have experienced such things in their own lives and give them hope and strength to move forward. She has taken writing classes through various GrubStreet programs and has been a lover of her community of Grove Hall and surrounding areas for most of her life.⁠ ⁠ The event is a live ZOOM Presentation.⁠ ⁠ Register for an account BEFORE entering this event. Only people with an account will be able to attend. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER or click the “Sign Up” button.⁠ ⁠ If you want to donate using Venmo or PayPal direct payment, send it to admin@onlineschoolofpoetry.org, but you still have to have an account to see the performance. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER or click the “Sign Up” button. Click the button below to donate using a card. NO REFUND⁠ ⁠ https://www.learning.onlineschoolofpoetry.org/courses/poetryjam/⁠ ⁠
Sunday, August 30 2020, 7:30 PM – FREE⁠ 2019 L Sunday, August 30 2020, 7:30 PM – FREE⁠ 2019 Lizard King and the 2020 Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam Team Member Wallace Coar– The event is a live ZOOM Presentation.⁠ ⁠ Wallace Coar is a Cambridge native and spoken word artist who enjoys traveling and capturing life’s amazing journey one word at a time. He was a member of the 2016 Lizard Lounge National Slam Team.⁠ ⁠ https://www.learning.onlineschoolofpoetry.org/courses/poetryjam/
Sunday, August 23, 2020, 7:30 PM – FREE⁠ 2019 Sunday, August 23, 2020, 7:30 PM – FREE⁠ 2019 Lizard King and the 2019 Grand Slam Champion of the Lizard Lounge Michael "Warrior" Bonds" !!! – The event is a live ZOOM Presentation.⁠ ⁠ https://www.learning.onlineschoolofpoetry.org/courses/warrior/⁠ ⁠ Featured Poet⁠ Michael Warrior Bonds is the 2019 Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam Grand Champion and the 2019 Most Valuable Poet of Lizard Lounge. Warrior is a nationally respected poet and urban Grio from Roxbury/Boston Massachusetts. He is a community actionist, motivator, and self-published author of 2 books of poetry “Gunz, Poems & Rosez” and “The Write. ⁠ ⁠ His work is also featured in “The Bandana Republic” (editors Louis Reyes Rivera & Bruce George co-creator of HBO Def Poetry Jam) and Word Against the Machine by Jane “Spoken Word” Grenier. Mr. Bonds is also the founder and CEO of “A Rite To Succeed Inc.” ARTS Inc is a nonprofit he built dedicated to raising and teaching Black boys to become Black Men and eradicate Black Male ignorance and low self-esteem. ⁠ ⁠ There will be an open-mic after the Featured Poet. Email admin@poetryjam.org if you want to perform on the open mic.
Sunday, August 16, 2020, 7:30 PM – FREE⁠ King Sunday, August 16, 2020, 7:30 PM – FREE⁠ King Arthur Collins will help us restart the Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam. Long Live the KING! – The event is a live ZOOM Presentation.⁠ ⁠ https://www.learning.onlineschoolofpoetry.org/courses/art-collins⁠ ⁠ Art Collins is a Boston poet who believes that there is extraordinary power in words and considers his poetry to be socially conscious as well as entertaining. He hopes that his brand of poetry will motivate action, provoke thought, and stimulate the mind of the listener. Art is Co-host of the Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam venue and was a member of 2008, 2010, 2016-2020 Lizard Lounge National Poetry Slam Team. He is an educator in the Boston Public School system and continues to perform his unique style of poetry with the aspirations of reaching a global audience.⁠ ⁠ There will also be a short open-mic after the featured poet. To perform email admin@poetryjam.org with the heading “OSP Open Mic,” thank you.⁠
Sunday, August 9, 2020, 8 PM – FREE2020 Lizard Sunday, August 9, 2020, 8 PM – FREE2020 Lizard King Tarishi “Midnight” Shuler will help us restart the Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam. Tarishi is the KING! – The event is a live ZOOM Presentation. AND Featuring special guest Blake Newman on Bass!Tarishi MIDNIGHT Shuler is a native of New Haven, CT he now resides in Brooklyn, NY. He has performed all across the country and outside the country as well. – He is the 2019 Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium’s Spoken Word Ambassador. – In 2018 he curated an event for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for their MLK Day celebration. – He was the 2017 Nuyorican Grand Slam Finals. – He won the 2016 & 2017 Yale Peabody Martin Luther King Jr. Slam – He is the 2017 & 2020 Lizard King of The Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA – He appeared on Russell Simmons YouTube Channel “All Def Poetry” – He has been performing at the National Poetry Slam from 2011 to 2018 – He performed on HOT97 for the 15th anniversary of 9/11 – He was the 2016 Slam Master of the CT National Poetry Slam Team Verbal Slap – He is 2011, 2012 & 2016 CT Grand Slam Champion. – He won the McDonald’s McCafe Poetry Slam in NYC in 2010, 2012, 2013 & 2016 – He has opened for many notable individuals such as Saul Williams, Grammy-nominated Dwele, President Bill Clinton, Abiodun of the Last Poets and others. – The most important thing to Tarishi is GOD and letting people know that their voices need to be heard. “Your voice is as vital as breathing” – Tarishi M. Shuler https://www.learning.onlineschoolofpoetry.org/courses/tarishi-midnight-shuler/
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The Boston Globe

“The trio was a surprise hit of the last Boston Music Awards. And it’s the glue at the Lizard on Sunday, weaving sinuous riffs that meld uncannily with the rhythm of the poetry.” Steve Morse, The Boston Globe

Abiodun Oyewole

“The Jeff Robinson Trio is one of the most innovative and revolutionary bands of today that mixes the old with a new kind of flavor.” – Abiodun Oyewole, The Last Poets

Patricia Smith

“Whether they’re the fierce undercurrent of a poet’s musings or simply jammin’ on their own, the Jeff Robinson Trio exhibit a power and confidence that flirts with perfection.” Patricia Smith
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