Poets & Storytellers Open is a poetry open mic series presented by Echo Thread Books at Wull & Oak (10 E. Broad St., Hopewell, NJ). Poets & Storytellers Open begins with an open mic, each reader performing up to a five minute set of original work, and concludes with a special performance by a featured musician or poet. Poets & Storytellers Open is held on the 2nd Friday of each month.

Details:

6:50 PM - doors/open mic signup begins* (caps off at 12 performers)
7:15 to 8:15 PM - open mic
8:30 to 9:00 PM - featured poet/musician

A featured musician closes out the event on nights where we have a musical guest, while evenings with a featured poet consist of a set of their work followed by an interview/audience Q&A session. We transcribe the interviews with our featured poets, and the transcriptions end up on our page for The Interviews. A few more details here. 

Please note that images of the evening's performances will be shared on social media. You can let us know in advance if you prefer to not have your likeness shared, we will happily oblige!

Check our Events Page for other upcoming Echo Thread Projects events.

*Please be mindful that W&O closes at 6PM on Friday evenings, and we use the next 50 minutes to rearrange and set up the space before opening back up for the event signups.

Echo Thread Projects/Books considers all events a safe space and will not tolerate any instances of discrimination, harassment or abuse in or around any event. Respect and consideration for others are core values to be upheld by all, both participant and attendant. Discrimination against and/or harassment of any person on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, religion, age, or any other factor is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

Upcoming Poets & Storytellers Open

07/10/26

Wull & Oak - 10 E. Broad St. Hopewell, NJ 

6:50 PM - Doors/Sign-ups 
7:15 PM - Open Mic
8:30 PM - Featured poet, Emma Hodgins & Spencer Soletto

Spencer and Emma have been writing together for over three years after meeting at 'Story and Verse' open mic in Princeton. Emma, utilizing surrealist techniques, and Spencer, specializing in haikai poetics and butoh dance, meet through use of fragmented imagery, resulting in collage-like compositions. For both poets, images are sourced from the everyday, the natural, the dreamt, and the arts. Spencer mainly records daily observations that are particularly felt as poetic modules to sit with and recontextualize, while Emma utilizes similar images as archetypes, with distinct color and character, to express complex emotional experiences. Through their individual affinity for the mundane and the dreamlike, their styles meld through direct collaboration, citation, and emulation. Spencer and Emma can be found walking through gardens, singing and dancing together, or eating mapo tofu.

FUTURE P&SO DATES: 

08/14/26 | 09/11/26 | 10/09/26

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