Poetry & Beer
Blackbird Buvette, 509 Central NW, Downtown ABQ(click here for directions/map)
First Wednesday of the month
Next event: Wed., Nov. 2 - 8 pm (sign-up @ 7:30)

THIS MONTH: Los Angeles poets RD ARMSTRONG & G. MURRAY THOMAS

Come out to New Mexico's longest running reading with the slam, open-mic and features. Hosted by Eric B. and Don McIver with music by DJ Epigram. Sign-up starts at 7:30 pm; show starts at 8 pm!

Congrats to last months winner: POETRY! (Slamming starts at P&B in January)

Smokin' Slam
Smokehouse BBQ, 4000 Barbara Loop SE, Rio Rancho, NM(click here for directions/map)
First Wednesday of the month
Next event: Thurs., Nov. 10 - 6 pm (sign-up @ 5:30)

THIS MONTH: Feature by renowned local poet JESSICA HELEN LOPEZ

Come out to Rio Rancho's first poetry slam with the slam, open-mic and features. Hosted by Carlos Contreras. and Katrina Guarascio. Sign-up starts at 5:30 pm; show starts at 6 pm!

Congrats to last months winner: Eva Cespin

MASPoetry slam & open-mic
Winning Coffee Co., 111 Harvard SE, ABQ (Near UNM)(click here for directions/map)
Third Wednesday of the month
Next event: Wed., Nov. 9 (NOTE: Earlier Date), 7 pm (sign-up @ 6:30)

THIS MONTH: The PROP SLAM! (Slammers must use a prop in the slam!)

Come out and slam at New Mexico's longest running all-ages slam (14 years and counting!), sponsored by Winning Coffee, Warehouse 508! Slam hosted by Kenn Rodriguez. Open-mic hosted by members of the DCYCP! Music by DJ Smartiepants. Sign-up starts at 7 pm; show starts at 6:30!

Congrats to last months winner: ZACHARY KLUCKMAN

Final Friday poetry slam & open-mic
Winning Coffee Co., 111 Harvard SE, ABQ (Near UNM)(click here for directions/map)
Final Friday of the month
Next event: Fri., Nov. 18 (NOTE: Earlier date) - 7 pm (sign-up @ 6:30)

THIS MONTH: FOOD BANK SLAM (Slammers who bring 5 or more cans of food get ONE BONUS POINT in the first round -- we'll be doing two rounds as usual. Slammers must bring at least one can of food to slam).

Burque's newest all-ages slam rocks the final Friday of the month (not always the fourth Friday tho!). Sponsored by Winning Coffee and Warehouse 508!
Hosted by Jasmine Cuffee. Music by DJ Smartiepant. Sign-up starts at 7 pm; show starts at 6:30!

Congrats to last months winner: POETRY!

OUTSpoken Queer poetry slam & open-mic
Winning Coffee Co., 111 Harvard SE, ABQ (Near UNM)(click here for directions/map)
Quarterly
Next event - OUTSpoken slam championship, at PRIDE celebration, Sat., June 11

New Mexico's first all-ages LGTB poetry slam and queer and queer friendly open-mic, started by former ABQ-WOW champ Erin Northern, poet and teacher Patricia Gillikin and youth poet Nathan Coffin in 2010, this reading takes queer poetry into the slam realm for the first time in Albuquerque. Sponsored by Albuquerque Pride and ABQSlams

This month's feature: ERIN NORTHERN!
This month's host: Richard Silvestre. Currated by Erin Northern, Patricia Gillikin and Nathan Coffing.

Last winner: Nathan Coffing!

Firestorm Women's slam & open-mic
Venue TBD
(click here for directions/map)
Quarterly
Next event - TBD.

Started by former ABQ Slamanatrix Juliette Torres, this reading was revived as a poetry slam & open-mic in June 2006 by host Maresa Thompson to provide an estrogen-powered space for women of all-ages. Firestorm is a quarterly reading. It's for women, by women! And guys welcomed too -- to listen & support.

Hosted and currated by Tracey Pontani.

Congrats to our two-time ABQ-WOW Champ ESME VAANDRAGER