VOCAB

We're back this week for another trip around the sun! VOCAB is another year closer to 20! We'll have some open mic regulars and folks that have helped shaped VOCAB spend a lil extra time on the mic celebrating the open mic with memories from over the years, so please join us in the celebration!


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February 11th | 8pm | $10
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We're back next week! This month we're watching back

Makai Brown is an Indiana born artist who recently graduated from IUI. He is also a multifaceted performer being a classically trained musician, visual artist, award winning poet, and member of the non-profit youth writing organization Word As Bond (Inc.). He has competed in several spoken word competitions such as Brave New Voices and the Southern Fried Poetry Slam, most recently ranking in the top 10 in the Nation. Makai presently works as the Teaching Assistant for the Media Arts & Science program and through his works hopes to give voices to the people who look and love differently.


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October 8th | 8pm | $10
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We're back next week! Featuring a longtime staple on the open mic and the poetry scene of this city, our friend

Steph Rec is a poet of resurrection—of voice, of body, of self. After years of shape-shifting, people-pleasing, and carrying silence like a second skin, she has found her way back to poetry through self-love, through truth, and through the pen she once put down.
Her work speaks from the tender spaces between undoing and becoming. With every poem, she honors the parts of herself she used to hide—the q***r, the spiritual, the soft, the strong. She writes as a form of healing, not only for herself but for anyone learning to love who they are without apology. Steph’s poetry is not about perfection. It’s about permission. To feel, to heal, to speak, and to take up space. She’s not just writing again—she’s living out loud.


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August 13th | 8pm | $10
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