2025 Festival Schedule (in progress)
A Huge Congratulations to our winners for 2024 - Individual Champion, Black Chakra & Team Champions, Ghost Phantom!
All events, with the exception of Finals Stage on Saturday, March 22nd are free and anyone may participate in the workshops or open mics and readings, even if you are not a competing poet!
Wednesday, March 20:
- Welcome Open Mic 7 to 9 pm
- TBA
Thursday, March 21:
Please Note: All poets may check in during Poet Orientation
- Poet Orientation 1 pm
- Main Library, 501 Copper Ave NW
- Attendence required for all competing poets. This is where we will provide swag bags, answer questions you may have and review what to expect the next 3 days.
- Main Library, 501 Copper Ave NW
- Trans & Non-Binary Open Mic 2:30 - 3:30 pm
- Main Library, 501 Copper Ave NW
- (Host TBA)
- Main Library, 501 Copper Ave NW
- Preliminary Bouts 1- 3 (Teams) 6 pm to 8 pm
- Bout 1: TBA
- Bout 2: TBA
- Bout 3: TBA
- Bout 1: TBA
- Preliminary Bouts 4 - 6 (Indies) 8 pm to 10 pm
- Bout 4:
- Bout 5: TBA
- Bout 6: TBA
- Bout 4:
- Special Event 11 pm to Midnight
- TBA
Friday, March 22:
- Morning Yoga - Hosted by Katrina Kaye 9 am
- TBA
- Side Events A-B 10 am to 11:15
- TBA
- Quirky Books (120 Jefferson St NE)
- Visible/Invisible Disabilities Open Mic - Hosted by TBA
- Ancora Cafe & Bakery (148 Quincy St NE )
- TBA
- Side Events C-D 11:30 am to 12:45 pm
- TBA
- Quirky Books (120 Jefferson St NE)
- LGBTQ+ Open Mic - Hosted by TBA
- Ancora Cafe & Bakery (148 Quincy St NE )
- TBA
- Side Events E-F 1 pm to 2:15 pm
- Asian American-Pacific Islander Open Mic - Hosted by TBA
- Ancora Cafe & Bakery (148 Quincy St NE )
- TBA
- Quirky Books (120 Jefferson St NE)
- Asian American-Pacific Islander Open Mic - Hosted by TBA
- Haiku Head 2 Head - Host TBA 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
- TBA
- Preliminary Bouts 7 - 9 (Indies) 6 pm to 8 pm
- TBA
- Bout 8: TBA
- Bout 9: TBA
- TBA
- Preliminary Bouts 10 - 12 (Teams) 8 pm to 10 pm
- Bout 10: TBA
- Bout 11: TBA
- Bout 12: TBA
- Bout 10: TBA
- Erotica Open Mic (& Burlesque Showcase) 11 pm to 1 am
- TBA
Saturday, March 23:
- Morning Yoga - Hosted by Katrina Kaye 9 am
- the Z Lounge (3711 Central Ave NE Suite A)
- Book Market 10 am to 2 pm
- TBA
- Side Events G-H 10 am to 11:15 pm
- Sober Soliloquies - Hosted by
- Ancora Cafe & Bakery (148 Quincy St NE )
- TBA
- Quirky Books (120 Jefferson St NE)
- Sober Soliloquies - Hosted by
- Side Events I-J 11:30 to 12:45 pm
- Latino/Latinx/Chicano/Chicanx Open Mic - Hosted by
- Ancora Cafe & Bakery (148 Quincy St NE )
- TBA
- Quirky Books (120 Jefferson St NE)
- Latino/Latinx/Chicano/Chicanx Open Mic - Hosted by
- Side Events K-L 1 pm to 2:15 pm
- Black Poets Open Mic - Hosted by
- Ancora Cafe & Bakery (148 Quincy St NE )
- Indigenous Poets Open Mic - Hosted by
- Quirky Books (120 Jefferson St NE)
- Black Poets Open Mic - Hosted by
- Nerd Slam - Hosted by El'Ja 2:30 to 4:30 pm
- Public House, Nob Hill Stage, (201 Hermosa Dr NE)
- Finals Stage - Hosted by TBA 7 pm to 10 pm
- Call time for Poets performing on Finals stage is 6 pm sharp
- South Broadway Cultural Center, 1025 Broadway Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102
- Call time for Poets performing on Finals stage is 6 pm sharp
- After Party 11 pm to 1 am
- TBA
Sunday, March 24:
- Breaking Bread Poet’s Picnic 12 pm to1:30 pm
- TBA
* The Underground Slam will be announced at orientation. Buy in is $50, winner takes all.
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