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Outside of the immediate University vicinity, prospects increase. In Porter Square, the Bookcellar ("The Most Fun You Can Have Under Mass Ave.") features an eclectic assortment of bookshelves leaning precariously against its walls. Here, piles upon piles of used books and magazines (Vogue from three months ago, anyone?), a much-used community bulletin board, and a large selection of herbal teas keep company. Yes, the Bookcellar is also a cafe, but never fear: virtually buried among books, the cafe section manages to avoid any comparison to the yuppiefest at the Coop...
...Bookcellar Cafe. Bassist John Voigt and Debris perform at the Cafe on Thursday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. 1971 Mass Ave. Free...
Standing amidst more than a hundred poetry mavens crowded into a tiny room at the Bookcellar Cafe in Porter Square, Ryc McIntyre jumps into the audience, shouting at them, looking his judges in the eye. It's all part of the poetry world's latest craze: the Slam...
...point of the Slam is to knock your opponents out of competition--a boxing ring with literary types. Brown and his wife Patricia Smith brought the Slam to Boston from Chicago, where competitive poetry reading has been part of the scene for years. Local poets come to the Bookcellar every week to perform their pieces for the audience and for randomly chosen judges, who hold up Olympic-style scorecards. Poets steel themselves for rejection; the audience cheers or growls for their favorites. The more reaction, the better...
Since the Slam started back in September, it has rattled the local literary circuit. Two weeks ago the Bookcellar opened a Saturday Slam to accomodate the crowds which scrunch into the cafe to watch the poetic conflagrations...