Literature & Spoken Word

Guest post by Ashley R Lister. As I write this I’m preparing for a night of poetry at the Dead Good Poets' latest open mic event.  I had never thought I would become a person who went to open mic events. I never thought I’d become the sort of person interested in poetry. It always struck me that there was an air of superficial pseudo-intellectual artifice to public poetry events. But the Dead Good Poets aren’t like that. The poetry at a typical event is eclectic. There are poets who rhyme every line all the time. There are poets whose…