Charis & Cliterati pair up to present an inviting and fierce open mic & reading series on the 3rd Thursday of every month. Hosted by the anarchic spoken word team of Karen G and Theresa Davis, members of the Art Amok Slam Team, this series cultivates the voices of authors, novices and an assortment of poets, songstresses and storytellers. June’s feature is Rachel
Wiley, a native of Columbus, OH. She read her first poem aloud just 2 short years ago at Writer’s Block First Draft Open Mic and serves as a living cautionary tale about the gateway drug of open mic poetry. Recently, she stormed the Rustbelt regional poetry slam by finishing in the top ten of forty-five poets. She writes and performs with power, vulnerability, sass and humor.