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

10/09/26

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

6:50 PM - Doors/Sign-ups 
7:15 PM - Open Mic
8:30 PM - Featured Storyteller, Jennifer Hayden

Jennifer Hayden is a writer, picture book illustrator, and acclaimed kitchen storyteller who took to comics instantly as the combination of words and pictures she was always looking for. But Hayden considers herself first and foremost a storyteller, whether in comix, prose, or spoken word.

As a graphic novelist, Hayden’s new food memoir Where There’s Smoke, There’s Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook is a salute to her love of cookbook illustration as well as her utter hatred of making dinner every night. Her breast cancer memoir The Story of My Tits was nominated for an Eisner Award and has been translated into three languages. She is currently working on a graphic travel novella, Le Chat Noir, due out in ’29 from Fieldmouse Press, about her dicey relationship with France.

Hayden lives with her husband in Hopewell, where if she listens she can hear the oak trees tell their stories too.

FUTURE P&SO DATES: 

11/13/26

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