Inkwell Open Mic Ft Bitch’s Brew

Join us for the Inkwell Open Mic and Reading Series, happening every second Monday of the month at Urban Artifact. The show starts with an open mic, followed this month by our feature performers, Bitch’s Brew members Avril, Abiyah, Elese, and Murray.

This all-ages event has a suggested $2 cover to help support feature artists, but no one will be turned away at the door. Bring your words (up to two poems and five minutes total per performer) to share, or just come enjoy some of Cincinnati’s finest craft beer and listen.

About the features:
Abiyah waxes poetic on the page, the stage, the beat, and the turntable in her various side-hustles as a published and performing poet, a multi-genre singer and melodic rapper, an all-vinyl dancehall reggae DJ (Queen City Imperial Soundsystem), and, most recently, as a music journalist. During the day, she flips data on its head and analyzes it until it’s dead.

Murray is a Georgia Peach, transplanted in Ohio. Her first name isn’t relevant, because she probably won’t allow you to use it anyway. Her writing journey has been about finding balance between that rhythmic cadence of spoken word, and a slower, sensual, almost sinister flow; both of which come naturally to her. She mostly writes to heal herself.

Elese Daniel is a poet in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is trying. She rides a bicycle in the street. Her work often considers intimacy and being. It is rarely published.

Avril Thurman was born in a log cabin in Brown County, Indiana. She has shown visual work in Brooklyn, Memphis, Covington, Philadelphia, Reims (France), and many independent Cincinnati galleries. Her poems have been published in the Madcap Poetry Review, and in Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety. Avril is currently operating out of Cincinnati, where she now has nine kinds of hot sauce.