March 11: Lee Eric Freedman & Open Mic at Bookery Manchester
Date/Time
Date(s) - March 11, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Bookery MHT
Categories
Lee Eric Freedman is the 3rd Poet Laureate of Swampscott, Massachusetts, United States (2016-2018).
Since 2011 he’s been affectionately entitled as the Renegade Poet Laureate of Swampscott (2011- Forever)
When Lee isn’t busy being any type of Laureate he leads the Tin Box Poets of Swampscott Workshop
Group, co-hosts the online video podcast series In Other Words with his friend and SpoFest founder
James Bryant, and regularly performs at open-mics and readings all over the place. He’s been published
in numerous poetry anthologies and journals including publications from Netherlands, Ireland, India,
South Africa, Bangladesh, and Scotland. In March of 2025, Lee’s poetry was published in the Vagabond
Lunar Collection Anthology (Vagabond Books) that was included in the Lunar Codex Project and which
landed on the moon aboard the Intuitive Machines / NASA Nova-C Lunar Lander Athena. His latest
chapbook coauthored with Sourav Sarkar is “Poems” (2024, Cooch Behar Books). Lee is the former host
of First Friday Open Mic at ReachArts, Swampscott, his poetry’s been translated into American Sign
Language and he’s a three-time winner of the Naomi Cherkofsky Memorial Poetry Contest.
