36 Market St
Portland, ME 04101
USA
Come to Lincoln’s for “Speak Easy” with Portland Poets Society. $5 cover.
Join us 9/19 for 15 uninterrupted minutes with the fascinatingly talented Liz Phillips @elizphil & 30 minutes with the total legend Myles Burr @mylesburr. List opens at 6:45 for open mic readers. We ❣️ U
Liz Phillips is a multidisciplinary artist and professor of performance studies. She holds a PhD in English and works across written, visual, and live arts. www.lizmphillips.com
Myles Burr is an artist based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Front-man of Myles Burr & The Last Straws and Specializing in freeform poetry, he takes readers/audience members through an abstract overview of his personal life. Myles Burr & The Last Straws have recently released an EP titled “Futuristic Dread And Excitement” and are in the midst of recording a full length album. Burr hosts various readings and beat poetry events in the Seacoast Area. He is the author of “Therapy Is Expensive So I Wrote This Book Instead.” and has been published in three anthologies, “You, Me, & The End Of The World.” , “The Best F-ing Poets You’ve Never Heard Of.” , and both “UWA Poetry Review Issue 1.”/“UWA Poetry Review Issue 2.” All five titles were released by the publishing house Underground Writers Association, based out of Portland, ME. Burr has also self-published six underground chapbooks: “Convolutions Of An Unkempt Mind.,” “It’s Fine. I’m Fine.,” “Ataraxia Volume 1,” “Sea Breezes,” “A Buffoon In Pantomime,” and most recently, “Hellfire & Brimstone.” Growing up in the Greater Seacoast Area has allowed him to find inspiration in the drastic change of seasons both visually and viscerally. There is beauty in every corner of the world, but what fascinates Myles Burr most of all is people and the human experience.