NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.

December’s featured poet is Lee Bennett

Poet and publisher, Bennett will read selections from her publication, Quotidian Magazine. Quotidian is a multi-volume series of creative responses to different prompts, all falling under the eponymous category of the quotidian. Its goal is to highlight repetitive, essential tasks, hard work that goes unnoticed, and the way these most basic acts connect and humble us, including objects and places that result from and are affected by these actions and how they surprise us with the unexpected depth of their meanings.

NIGHTJAR open mic guidelines: 
317 words is the maximum length for open mic contributions. Creative takes on the prompt are fine, but this must be new writing in response to the prompt!

Prompt for open mic:

Write a poem or short piece that engages with the history of Indianapolis.