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

This week, come through to catch REPARATIONS in all their collective glory before they head out to compete at the Rustbelt Regional Slam in Columbus, Ohio June 3-4!!
6:00pm: Workshop w/ Taylor Steele
7:30pm: Sign-ups and Socialize
8:00pm: Open Mic
8:45pm: Featured Poet: Reparations Collective

All Ages // Wheelchair Accessible
Open Mic // $5
Workshop // $10

About our Feature:

Reparations is a poetic performance collective who will take over the world without the help of white folk. They don’t need you. Unless it’s monetary. Then, give it to them. These radical, black, queer poets perform and teach workshops around identity, activism, trauma, and healing. Reparations, comprised of Ashley August, Timothy DuWhite, Roya Marsh, and Taylor Steele, became a collective after winning the 2015 Northbeast Underground Tournament Slam.

Individually, they have performed at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The Bowery Poetry Club, The Triad Broadway House, The Apollo, Cherry Lane Theatre, BAM, the United Nations, and many slam venues and universities across the nation. They have been published by such distinguished journals as Apogee Journal, Huffington Post, Blavity, The Body is Not an Apology, Blackberry: a magazine, The Rumpus, and many more. Their faces have been featured on Button Poetry, SlamFind, Def Jam, and “Orange is the New Black” — well, only one of them. They are ready to start a revolution. As a wise woman once said, “Pay me what you owe me!”