Geography is Irrelevant
Alyal, Amina / Boylan, Raef / Drew, Rose
Lockdown: It has been a bizarre trade-off, eh? Performers are vampires: we feed off audiences, but now, without live crowds, are blessed with access to all-new open mics, all-new audiences, even if only in the two dimensions of Zoom. These are strange times. So much is lost, and yet, the things we've gained are precious.We have assembled poems and prose drawn from attendees to York Spoken Word, Fire & Dust, and Wordspace. The York open mic has...