Dec 17th: Beat Night at The Press Room, Portsmouth
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Date/Time
Date(s) - December 17, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Press Room, Portsmouth
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Ever since she learned that poems do not need to rhyme, Lauren WB Vermette has been flinging emotions at the page like an action-painter
slings paint at a canvas. Once she got over her fear of microphones, she has been burning them up at every local reading she can find. Her work
has appeared in Rat’s Ass Review Journal, Sledgehammer, Solstice, and Underground Writers Association, among others. Her first collection of
poetry, And The Form Falls Away (2018), was published by Bee Monk Press. Lauren WB Vermette is currently serving as the 14th Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH.
Jason O’Toole is Poet Laureate Emeritus of North Andover, MA. He serves on the advisory board of the New England Poetry Club, and as treasurer of the Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco. He is the winner of the 2025 Amy Lowell Prize and has been nominated for the Rhysling and Pushcart Prize. He serves as a judge for the Tom Nattell Peace Poetry Prize and the Capital District Slam Poetry Festival in NY. Recent poems and prose have appeared in the anthology Love is for All of Us (Storey Publishing), as well as Ghost City Press, The Somerville Times, Phil Lit, and Tiny Molecules.
About Beat Night
Spoken word meets improvised music every third Thursday of the month. Each night kicks off with two featured readers and is followed by an open mic. The Beat Night Band provides sly and stylish musical accompaniment all night long.
7PM: Featured Readers
8PM: Open Mic
Join on stage or in the audience and be a part of this nearly 25 year-old Portsmouth tradition.
Open mic sign-ups begin in-person at 6pm.
When:10/23/2025 ~ 7:00pm (ET)
Where: The Press Room. 77 Daniel St., Portsmouth, NH