Union Square Slam is excited for our Summer reading series, featuring an extended open mic and a phenom featured artist.

This week, we host the fantabulous DC-based poet/author/organizer extraordinaire, GOWRI K!!!

7:00pm: Sign-ups and Socialize
8:00pm: Open Mic
9:00pm: Featured Poet: Gowri K.

All Ages // Wheelchair Accessible
Open Mic // $5

About our feature:

Gowri K. is a Tamil American poet, performing artist, teaching artist, and lawyer whose parents immigrated from Sri Lanka. Her advocacy has addressed animal welfare, the environment, the rights of prisoners and the criminally accused, and justice and accountability in post-war Sri Lanka. Gowri was a member of the 2010 DC Southern Fried Slam team and has performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Capital Fringe Festival, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and conferences in the U.S. and Canada. She serves as poetry coordinator at BloomBars, a poetry events host at Busboys and Poets, senior poetry editor at Jaggery (a South Asian inspired arts journal), and co-editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Gowri tweets on-the-spot haiku @gowricurry.