May Poetry Café: Water

Join us for our monthly Poetry Café in the Great Hall. For our May café, we will be writing about water. This could be a love letter to your favorite beach or river, or a meditation on our dependence and interconnectedness with water. This could be a positive or negative reflection on the experience of being in water, the efforts of washing something, or experiencing different sounds of running water.

Come ready to share your work or be an attentive listener, all are welcome. Please register below.

There is some debate on the origin of the phrase “Poetry Café.” Some argue it refers to the Modernists (Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, TS Eliot, etc.) sharing their work in the cafés in Europe. As spoken word poetry has gained traction and the genre of slam poetry has evolved, some trace the phrase to the Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan. The café was founded in 1973 by Rutgers professor Miguel Algarín and gave Puerto Rican New York poets a place to meet and share their work. Although the café was closed for several years in the 1980’s, it continues to serve as an arts center for the Nuyorican community.