Is Anyone Here A Writer/Poet In Columbus?

• Upper90

  It's odd, I've been hosting this poetry/open mic in Columbus for like 2 months now, and I've never thought to ask the freehuddle if anyone was around here and interested. For shame.
  
  It's in the Short North, and it's actually become pretty epic. Or, at least as epic as people reading poetry and occasionally playing a song can become. If anyone writes and is interested, or would like to check it out first, let me know.
  
  If you would be a first timer, it's pretty casual, if you know what I mean.
  
  (I actually mean nothing sexual by that, despite the wink.)
• darbypitcher22

  

  do you do that coffee house snapping thingy when people are finished? or do you guys clap the normal way?
• LJ

  

  I think Upper90 is... He wrote this sweet Jackie Robinson story, can't remember the name of it though.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  I've been known to write some poems
  
  Hows this?
  
  When I was young me and my mama had beef
  Seventeen years old kicked out on the streets
  Though back at the time, I never thought I'd see her face
  Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
  Suspended from school
  and scared to go home, I was a fool
  with the big boys, breakin all the rules
  I shed tears with my baby sister
  Over the years we was poorer than the other little kids
  And even though we had different daddy's, the same drama
  When things went wrong we'd blame mama
  I reminice on the stress I caused, it was hell
  Huggin on my mama from a jail cell
  And who'd think in elementary?
  Hey! I see the penitentiary,
  one day
  And runnin from the police, that's right
  Mama catch me, put a whoopin to my backside
  And even as a crack fiend, mama
  You always was a black queen, mama
  I finally understand
  for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man
  You always was committed
  A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it
  There's no way I can pay you back
  But the plan is to show you that I understand
  You are appreciated
  
  people seem to like that one
• Mr. 300

  

  happy birthday to you
  you live in a zoo
  you look like and monkey
  and you smell like one too.
• SnotBubbles

  Hmmmm....all I got out of this post was a ton of sexual innuendo. You're not tempting me into your sex slave trade business Upper90!
• homefield

  

  Do they have strippers at these poetry clubs?
• homefield

  

  Wrong type of club,i apologize but i have read alot of penthouse forum articles and i could stop by and recite a couple of my favorites if you would like.
• Upper90

  After a couple of the ones I heard tonight, haha, a penthouse letter probably wouldn't be that far off.
• jtownclassics

  Post Natalie Portman, or send it to me on the book
• Upper90

  Yeah, I will, I still kind of need to kind of come down from it a bit. Tonight was pretty much me debuting that, and I haven't written in that style in 5, or 6 years, and I'm still a little overwhelmed by the response. I'll be putting it up on facebook/various blogs early next week, once everyone comes down from their new years buzz.
• jtownclassics

  Good deal, wish I could have been there to hear it