Second Saturday Poetry Open Mic with Westley Heine
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Event Description
The Corazón de Trinidad Creative District is pleased to announce October's Second Saturday Open Mic for Poets and All Literary Souls event, featuring Westley Heine!
The evening begins on Saturday, October 8 at 7 pm with our featured writer; the microphone then opens to all who would like to share their creative literary efforts.
Westley Heine, a resident of Chicago, is the author of Busking Blues, 12 Chicago Cabbies, and The Trail of Quetzalcoatl. His poetry and prose have been published in The Chicago Reader, Gravitas, Dumpster Fire Press, and The Wellington Street Review, among others.
He’s been a taxi dispatcher, a roadie, a deliveryman, a squatter, a street musician, a grocery clerk, a chambermaid, a novelist, a painter, a metal head, a Boy Scout, an insurance investigator, a jailbird, a farmhand, sold tickets to the symphony, sold plasma, been unemployed, and been a filmmaker. Rambling from Wisconsin, Chicago, Texas, Mexico, Europe, and California, he creates new characters inside him, always a writer.
This event is free and open to the public!
This event is sponsored by the Corazón de Trinidad Creative District and Colorado Creative Industries (CCI).