Poetry Reading & Open Mic at Phinista Café, Cambridge

Thu Nov 20 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-05:00

Phinista Cafe, 1876 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140 | Cambridge

Philip Nikolayev
Publisher/HostPhilip Nikolayev
Poetry Reading & Open Mic at Phinista Caf\u00e9, Cambridge
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Poets Tom Daley, David Daniel and Rodney Wittwer will read from their work, followed by an open mic. This Vietnamese cafe is great. Espresso your thoughts, steep in poetry. Come, let's mingle over mugs and metaphors. Bring your own texts for the open mic!
Recipient of the Dana Award in Poetry, Tom Daley’s poetry has appeared in North American Review, Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, Fence, Denver Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Witness, and elsewhere. FutureCycle Press published his first collection of poetry, House You Cannot Reach—Poems in the Voice of My Mother and Other Poems. His chapbook, Far Cry, was published in 2022 by Ethel Zine & Micro Press.
David Daniel is the award-winning poet and author of Seven-Star Bird, Ornaments, and What Love Is When the World Is in Want. He lives in Belmont, Massachusetts, and he directs the undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He founded WAMFEST: The Words, Art, and Music Festival that has hosted collaborative performances by Bruce Springsteen and Robert Pinsky, C.D. Wright and Rosanne Cash, Quincy Troupe and Talib Kweli, and dozens of the most influential artists of our time, with the goal of breaking down barriers between the art of the people and the art of the academy. In January, Galileo Press will release two editions of The Illuminated What Love Is, a book of graphic poetry in collaboration with artist George Cochrane.
Rodney Wittwer is the author of Gone & Gone (Red Hen Press) and has published poems in many literary journals. A recipient of fellowships and awards from the Artists Foundation and Massachusetts Cultural Council, he lives in W. Medford, MA with his wife and two cats. He does not teach anywhere.
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