A Poet’s PerspectiveJoin Hillcrest Children and Family Center for our annual Evening Of Spoken Word hosted by DC’s own Whiskey Girl and Preach. We will explore “What’s Going On?” in our city with the opioid epidemic and other contributing factors for substance use disorder. Local artists will embrace this theme and articulate it beautifully through (more…)

A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by Orville WalkerBorn in Takoma Park, MD, Orville Walker grew up in Jamaica; and now Landover, MD, where he currently resides. He has been writing poetry for several years, but started performing his work in November 2009 at the 12th Street Lounge in Washington, D.C. Orville’s poems (more…)

College Night hosted by Mariah BarberMariah Barber is Carolina girl from the 704 and current Peace Corps volunteer between countries. She is a self-proclaimed “bag lady” & “nomad” who is claiming DC as home for a while until she returns to Latin America. She is an activist, spoken word poet , author, researcher and sexual (more…)

A Busboys and Poets in-house series LIVE! from Busboys is an open mic talent showcase that offers a platform for all performers, not just poets. Whether you are a musician, comedian, dancer, actor, magician or any other type of performer, we want to see what you got! Come out and showcase your talents!Tonight’s LIVE! from (more…)