Rudyard's British Pub

The Word Around Town
https://www.wordaroundtown.org

 

The Word Around Town (WAT) tour is an annual week-long poetry marathon held in Houston at a different venue each night of the week. The 2013 Word Around Town Poetry Tour organizers are Blanca Alanis, Joe B, Lupe Mendez and Stephen Gros. Founded in 2006 byZelene Pineda, Joe B and Stephen Gros the WAT tour has performed at a myriad of venues and event spaces friendly to poetry and the arts. The list includes notable community centers like M.E.C.A., Talento Bilingüe de Houston and Project Row Houses, art spaces like Aerosol Warfare and The Artery, as well as open mic staples such as Taft Street Coffee, Bohemeo’s and notsuoH.

The mission of the WAT tour is to introduce poets to different venues and to new audiences in the Houston area. Now in it’s 8th year poets featured on the tour continue to range in styles from academic to slam and spoken word to experimental. The venues showcased on the tour are just as diverse from the local coffee shop to community centers, bars and non profit institutions. The WAT tour exists to entertain while creating a forum for poets to find new audiences.

 

VETERAN FEATURES

DEE!COLONIZE | MARCELL MURPHY | KATHY FAY | ZELENE PINEDA | OUTSPOKEN BEAN | JOE B | JASMINNE MENDEZ

 

2013 LINEUP

JENENE CARTER | DIGH | BILLIE HILL | SAL MACIAS | DARLA MCBRYDE | WINSTON DERDEN | ZM WISE | JONATHAN MOODY | BISHOP | JEREMY PEÑA | DIANA VENTURA | BLANCA ALANIS | CAROLYN ADAMS | CHRIS WISE | GERALD CEDILLO | FLUENTONE | OSCAR PEÑA | RAIN | MARIE BROWN

 

Doors 7PM
Poetry 8PM
Free!