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Monday Night Poetry – August 18 2025
♾️♾️♾️♾️MONDAY NIGHT POETRY♾️♾️♾️♾️
♾️♾️🎤🎤🎤MONDAY-8/18/25🎤🎤🎤♾️♾️
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Writing Prompt(s):
“Always be looking for treasure.”
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Rundown:
August 18th, 2025
(Season 4: Episode 33)
3:00PM – Doors Open
4:30PM – Sign-Ups Open
5:30PM – Poetry Workshop
6:30PM – Show Open
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@poetrybookclub.blc
August 2025 Poet of Study
Ocean Vuong @ocean_vuong
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Vendors: Kemetic Love
@kemeticlove
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RUN OF SHOW
14 Open Mic Slots
📸Group Photo📸
❤️Intermission❤️
10 Open Mic Slots
Host Close . Event: MONDAY NIGHT POETRY Weekly Open Poetry Mic @mondaynightpoetrynv Since January 3rd, 2022 ♾️ Created & Directed by JJZ Poet Laureate @cityofreno (5th – JAN/24 – DEC/25) w/ @renobigartslittlecity . SPECIAL EVENT COLLABORATION with Spoken Views Collective @spoken_views_reno (Established 2006) Founder & Co-Creator of MNP: Iain Watson @amethyst_noir . Host (unless otherwise specified): @sidewayseightprojects . Venue: @shimstavern 125 W 3rd St., Reno, NV The Biggest Little City in the World
Poetry Under No King – Slam – August 17 2025
AUGUST 17TH, 2025
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⭐️DM @poetryundernoking to reserve a slot
⭐️COMPETITORS STILL NEEDED⭐️
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Poster Artist: @b._.moon03
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From Host Venue:
@renolittletheater P.U.N.K. Presents:
Traditional Slam
Poetry Under No King is back with a vengeance. Next month, poets battle it across three rounds to determine a singular winner based on a panel of judges and their cumulative scoring. You don’t want to miss this!
Wednesday, June 18th @ 7:00 pm
$5 at the door gets you in.
All rebels, writers, and word-lovers welcome.
This ain’t your English teacher’s poetry night!
Group Photo – August 11 2025
Monday Night Poetry – August 11 2025
♾️♾️♾️♾️MONDAY NIGHT POETRY♾️♾️♾️♾️
♾️♾️🎤🎤🎤MONDAY-8/11/25🎤🎤🎤♾️♾️
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Writing Prompt(s):
“This flicker is for flirting.”
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Rundown:
August 11th, 2025
(Season 4: Episode 32)
3:00PM – Doors Open
4:30PM – Sign-Ups Open
5:30PM – Poetry Workshop
6:30PM – Show Open
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@poetrybookclub.blc
August 2025 Poet of Study
Ocean Vuong @ocean_vuong
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Vendors: Kemetic Love
@kemeticlove
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RUN OF SHOW
14 Open Mic Slots
📸Group Photo📸
❤️Intermission❤️
10 Open Mic Slots
Host Close . Event: MONDAY NIGHT POETRY Weekly Open Poetry Mic @mondaynightpoetrynv Since January 3rd, 2022 ♾️ Created & Directed by JJZ Poet Laureate @cityofreno (5th – JAN/24 – DEC/25) w/ @renobigartslittlecity . SPECIAL EVENT COLLABORATION with Spoken Views Collective @spoken_views_reno (Established 2006) Founder & Co-Creator of MNP: Iain Watson @amethyst_noir . Host (unless otherwise specified): @sidewayseightprojects . Venue: @shimstavern 125 W 3rd St., Reno, NV The Biggest Little City in the World . . . . . .
Group Photo – August 4 2025
Poetry – August 6 2025
PROMPT: Write a poem (in advance of our session) about the word SUNFLOWER 🌻
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🎤📚🎤💥💥💥8/6/25💥💥💥🎤📚🎤
Our 1st session of August 2025 will be underway on the 6th from 6-8pm.
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With the necessary collaborative help from @ourcenterreno we’re continuing a new poetic journey: @truecolorspoetry (IG) ♾️{Since 2/7/24}♾️
We will meet on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of every month. The event is part workshop, part open mic, all love. Free to attend. ALL AGES. Materials provided. Bring your true colors and let them shine.
Assistant Director and Co-Host: @cheyennemxg
Produced by a member of @spoken_views_reno
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💥💥💥NOTE: Next gatherings (after 8/6/25): Wednesday, 8/20/25 and 9/3/25 from 6:00pm-8:00pm – 1745 S. Wells Ave., Reno NV, 89502
The host will be there starting at 5:45pm for anyone who wants to engage in writing exercises beforehand as a warm-up to the Open Mic/ Sharing portion.
Monday Night Poetry – August 4 2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️NEXT UP ON THE MICROPHONE ⭐️⭐️⭐️
♾️♾️♾️♾️MONDAY NIGHT POETRY♾️♾️♾️♾️
♾️♾️🎤🎤🎤MONDAY-7/28/25🎤🎤🎤♾️♾️
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OUR BELOVED VENDORS @kemeticlove RETURN!
See 🔗in bio @mondaynightpoetrynv for website
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Writing Prompt(s):
“A country and a home are the same thing right?”
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Rundown:
August 4th, 2025
(Season 4: Episode 31)
3:00PM – Doors Open
4:30PM – Sign-Ups Open
5:30PM – Poetry Workshop
6:30PM – Show Open
9:00PM – Book Club Open
Collective Breath Poetry Book Club
@poetrybookclub.blc
August 2025 Poet of Study
Ocean Vuong @ocean_vuong
Run of Show
Hosted by Eric Morago
14 Open Mic Slots
📸Group Photo📸
❤️Intermission❤️
10 Open Mic Slots
Host Close . Event: MONDAY NIGHT POETRY Weekly Open Poetry Mic @mondaynightpoetrynv Since January 3rd, 2022 ♾️ Created & Directed by JJZ Poet Laureate @cityofreno (5th – JAN/24 – DEC/25) w/ @renobigartslittlecity . SPECIAL EVENT COLLABORATION with Spoken Views Collective @spoken_views_reno (Established 2006) Founder & Co-Creator of MNP: Iain Watson @amethyst_noir . Host (unless otherwise specified): @sidewayseightprojects . Venue: @shimstavern 125 W 3rd St., Reno, NV The Biggest Little City in the World . . . . . .
Group Photo – July 28 2025
♾️♾️♾️♾️MONDAY NIGHT POETRY♾️♾️♾️♾️
♾️♾️🎤🎤🎤MONDAY-7/28/25🎤🎤🎤♾️♾️
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SPECIAL EDITION w/ GUEST HOST
ERIC MORAGO @ericmorago
of MOON TIDE PRESS @moontidepress
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WE HAD A GLORIOUS TIME CELEBRATING THE LITERARY ARTS! THANK YOU ERIC FOR HOSTING AND EXEMPLIFYING GENEROSITY!
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🚨REMEMBER MONDAY NIGHT POETS🚨
See 🔗in bio @mondaynightpoetrynv
To submit for the upcoming anthology
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Writing Prompt(s):
Poet’s Choice:
Host Prompt –
“WHAT SECRET WOULD YOU WHISPER TO THE MOON?”
Director Prompt –
“your worst sin is that you’ve betrayed and destroyed yourself for nothing” Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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Rundown:
July 28th, 2025
(Season 4: Episode 30)
3:00PM – Doors Open
4:30PM – Sign-Ups Open
5:30PM – Poetry Workshop
6:30PM – Show Open
Run of Show
Hosted by Eric Morago
14 Open Mic Slots
📸Group Photo📸
❤️Intermission❤️
10 Open Mic Slots
Host Close . Event: MONDAY NIGHT POETRY Weekly Open Poetry Mic @mondaynightpoetrynv Since January 3rd, 2022 ♾️ Created & Directed by JJZ Poet Laureate @cityofreno (5th – JAN/24 – DEC/25) w/ @renobigartslittlecity . SPECIAL EVENT COLLABORATION with Spoken Views Collective @spoken_views_reno (Established 2006) Founder & Co-Creator of MNP: Iain Watson @amethyst_noir . Host (unless otherwise specified): @sidewayseightprojects . Venue: @shimstavern 125 W 3rd St., Reno, NV The Biggest Little City in the World . . . . . .
August 2025 Events
FOUR MONDAYS IN AUGUST 2025
A special thank you to COMMUNITY POETS for supplying the four prompts (from various sources) for use this upcoming month and the betterment of our writing community as a whole!
August 4th: @twoschae
August 11th: @rachgreyyyy
August 18th: @loguev
August 25th: @tears_of_gold256 based on a quote by Sir Ian McKellen
STAY TUNED for additional information regarding community and surrounding area events as well as our sessions of Monday Night Poetry.
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See the MONDAY NIGHT POETRY Facebook page for more event details…
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Event:
MONDAY NIGHT POETRY
Weekly Open Mic (every Monday)
@mondaynightpoetrynv
Since January 3rd, 2022
Created and Directed by Jesse James Ziegler
Reno Poet Laureate – (5th-JAN/24-DEC/25)
@cityofreno
@renobigartslittlecity
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Hosts:
@sidewayseightprojects
Unless otherwise specified
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Special Event Collaboration with
Spoken Views Collective (Since 2006)
@spoken_views_reno
Founder – Iain Watson
@amethyst_noir
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Venue:
Shim’s Tavern @shimstavern
125 W 3rd St., Reno, NV USA
The Biggest Little City in the World
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Rundown:
3:00PM – Doors Open
5:30PM – Sign-Ups Open
6:00PM – Prompt Open
6:30PM – Mic Open