Neon Mic Night at Old Major, 900 S. Carey Street, Wednesday, March 4, 7:00 p.m. oldmajorbaltimore.com With a slew of poets, novelists, and other ink-stained wretches descending on the city, we wanted to be sure to help them find one of our favorite literary bars, Old Major, named after one of the porcine characters in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” But, it turns out, the writers and publishers found the bar long before they even hit the streets of Baltimore, booking the bar with a bevy of bookish off-site AWP events, including Neon Mic Night, which TimeOut Chicago called one of the Windy City’s best literary and poetry events. “With AWP, I wanted to capture the same energy we have in Chicago, but with more readers and a bit more rapid-fire of a setup,” host Ben Niespodziany explained via email. The readings will be broken into three one-hour sections, with each reader getting ten minutes, so you’ll have plenty of time to sample some of Old Major’s delicious food and have a few local Baltimore beers, while listening to a group of writers Niespodziany describes as blending “surrealism with absurdism, lightness with darkness, tenderness with slapstick.” (Baynard Woods)
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