Word: cantab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Strings Attached-Cantab Lounge...
...more encouraging note, there has been renewed interest poetry performance in the past few years in coffeehouses and bookstores across the country. Cambridge's Cantab Lounge and the Phoenix Coffeehouse in Central Square, for instance, both hold weekly open mikes and periodic slams and readings. And on a larger scale, Poetry in Motion, the tremendously popular project which brought poetry to the walls of New York City subways last year, is now gracing the Boston...
...Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass Ave., Cambridge, ph. 354-2685. Poetry every Wednesday night: 7:30 p.m. open mike, 9:30pm featured poet, 10 p.m. slam. Cover...
Iarrive at Central Square wearing black, unlit cigarette in hand. With romanticized notions of Kerouac and Ginsberg, I am ready to light up and spout out deep thoughts. But the Cantab Lounge reminds me more of a scummy bar in the middle of nowhere than of the urban youth underground I am expecting. It's the smell of cheap beer, and not the energy of angst, that hits me as I walk...
Each Wednesday, 25 to 30 people present their poetry at the open mike in the basement of the Cantab Lounge. As I walk in, Douglas Bishop is standing in front of the mike teaching the audience the refrain of a poem. He has no trouble enticing everyone to speak along...