Regular Events Near Nebraska:

• Denver, CO

  -Friday night open mic at the Mercury Cafe (2199 California Street) starts at 10pm.
  -Sunday night open mic and slam at the Mercury Cafe with great featured performers starts at 8pm.

  
  

• Ames, IA

  -Poetry Slam and open mic the 1st Tuesday of every month at The Boheme Bistro (2900 West Street). Signup starts at 7, slam at 7:30. $4 suggested donation, for information, email slamames@yahoo.com

• Des Moines, IA

  -Poetry Slam the 3rd Tuesday of every month at Java Joe's Coffee House (214 4th Street). Signup starts at 6:45, slam at 7 followed by an open mic. Run by the excellent Heather Knowles Cottington, iowaslam@hotmail.com.

• Oskaloosa, IA

  Slam at the Midnight Drip Coffee House (North Market St or the corner of Highway 63 and Iowa Highway 92). Second Friday of the Month 8pm sign up for slammers. For more information, email Oskyslampoets@yahoo.com.

  
  

• Sioux Falls, SD

  -Third Tuesday of the month at the Horse Barn Art Gallery (309 E Falls Park, Sioux Falls, SD) 7-9pm. For more information: (605) 367-7391 or siouxfallsevents.com

• Vermillion, SD

  -Poetry Slam and open mic usually on the last Thursday of the month at the Coffee Shop Gallery on Main Street downtown (not hard to find). To make sure there's an event on a given month, email projlit@usd.edu to check.

  
  

• Chicago, IL

  -Ok, it doesn't adjoin Nebraska, but Melissa Severin (lately of Omaha) runs a weekly poetry reading at Myopic Bookstore (1564 N Milwaukee Ave) every Sunday at 7pm. For more info, you can email melissaseverin@yahoo.com

  
  

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