About this Event
SPOKE & BIRD OPEN MIC RETURNS TO THE STAGE ONCE AGAIN THIS JUNE!
Come join us for an epic open mic and THREE incredible feature poets at the fabulous HIVE CARPENTER STREET!!! with your gorgeous selves!
You know the drill:
Message us for an open mic spot!
Every open micer gets 5 minutes.
Bring your weird, bring your ugly, bring your angst, bring your rants, bring your epiphanies, bring your past two years of scribbling. We can't wait to hear it.
Tickets: $10
SAFETY RULES
Masks should be worn at all times by audience members unless eating/drinking
Performers may remove masks when performing unless they are feeling unwell or have been in close contact with a person who tested positive for COVID in the past week.
ABOUT OUR FEATURES
LAILI ABDEEN
Laili is a graduate of English Literature who enjoys basking in the craftsmanship of words.
After joining several Spoke & Bird events during the pandemic and contributing annually to school magazines, she finally published her first poem last year in Mahogany Journal’s third issue, Soundscapes.
She considers herself to be a bit of a loveaholic, avidly consuming romance novels, romcoms, and of course, Taylor Swift’s music. Laili believes love to be an underlying philosophy for all things beautiful in this world.
SHAWN HOO
Shawn Hoo is the author of OF THE FLORIDS (Diode Editions, July 2022), a poetry chapbook around history, ecology, and enchantment. His poems can be found in New Delta Review, Queer Southeast Asia, Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and elsewhere. His translations from the Mandarin Chinese are published in the Journal of Practice, Research and Tangential Activities (PR&TA) and will appear in Exchanges: A Journal of Literary Translation. He is Translation Tuesdays Editor at Asymptote. A graduate of Yale-NUS College, Shawn is currently writing about and researching into Sinophone film, literary, and multilingual contexts and tweets at @hycshawn. Born in Singapore, he is currently based in Shanghai.
Link to forthcoming chapbook: https://www.diodeeditions.com/authors/shawn-hoo
JOLLIN TAN
Jollin writes in a variety of forms and styles, and is particularly interested in poetry and nonfiction. She has performed her poetry at multiple events and writes for both page and sound simultaneously.
Her first two poetry collections, Bursting Seams and Derivative Faith, are published by Math Paper Press and take on conversations surrounding body image and faith. Much of her writing also addresses the immensely personal questions of memory and the body.
Jollin’s work can be found in anthologies such as Body Boundaries, SingPoWriMo The Anthology, Balik Kampung 3B: Some East, More West, and Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories V.3. Her poetry has also been curated for Prairie Schooner and Singapore Writer’s Festival, and she has moderated and spoken on various panels at Singapore Writer’s Festival, ranging from topics about social media and romance novels to spoken poetry readings.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
the Hive Carpenter, 36 Carpenter Street, Singapore, Singapore
SGD 10.00