Improbable Places Poetry Tour – The Castle

The Improbable Places Poetry Tour, hosted by Colleen Michaels of Montserrat College of Art, is seeking game-related poems for a most unique reading opportunity. On April 9th, Beverly’s board game restaurant and bar, THE CASTLE, will host a night of poetry and play. Doors open at 6:00 for those who want dinner or game time, and the reading begins at 7:00 The reading is free and open to the public.

Started in 2010, the Improbable Places Poetry Tour has brought poetry to unlikely places like bike shops, Laundromats, tattoo parlors, and a power plant on Boston’s north shore. We will roll the dice on a new season and pack the room Jenga style with players, readers, and poems about the games people play.

Do you have a poem about gaming the system, a win or loss, or that time you hid the little silver top hat from your sibling? All fair game. Send us your scrabble acrostics, your confessional poems of crimes against humanity, your buffed D&D ode, your playground rules, your snakes and ladders love poems. Do you have a poem in the voice of Miss Peacock in the library? Send it!

Submissions can be sent to colleen.michaels@montserrat.edu no later than Monday, April 1, 2024.
If chosen, you must be available to read your work in Beverly at The Castle on Tuesday, April 9th, 2024.

The 2024 Improbable Places Poetry Tour is funded by Montserrat College of Art, Beverly Cultural Council, and Mass Cultural Council.