Dirty Gerund at Ralph's Rock Diner!

HAPPY 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!! Longer than either of us have spent anywhere!!! (school, apartment, relationship, salted meat of the month club) Well over 250 Monday Shows with no breaks! Incredible artists from all over the world! Thousands of poems, laughs and original creations! Even random (but incredibly insightful) media outlets credit our show with helping to make our venue one of the coolest around! We don’t plan on stopping anytime soon, (at least I don’t think we are) so let’s keep this party going……….. (trumpets herald!!!!)

FEATURE: No stranger to our stage! LEWIS MORRIS. (aka Lewis M) is a multi-talented poet, writer, beatmaker, MC, and three time Uno Champion of the world. He started writing at the age of eleven, and discovered poetry slam at age fourteen. Since then, he has performed at The Apollo Theater, The Smithsonian, The Bowery Poetry Club, and The Nuyorican, among many others. For his work as a teaching artist, he has received the Newman Civic Fellow Award. He has also won a Mass Poetry Award for Most Versatile Poet. Lewis is the founder of The OFFICIAL Massart Poetry Alliance, a student group that hosts open mics, poetry slams, and special events that have grown to audiences of over one hundred. Currently, Lewis is a co-founder of Flatline Poetry, teaches poetry at Dorchester Academy in Dorchester, MA as their Poet in Residence, and is working towards his BFA in the Studio for Interrelated Media at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design! He’s featured as a spoken word artist at the DG in the past, but this Monday, we’re proud to welcome him, record release party style, for his debut rap CD!!!! Check it our at http://lewism.bandcamp.com/ if you can’t wait to bob your head!

BONUS RUCKUS: The annual MISS DIRTY GERUND PAGEANT! me and nick are dudes. we’re not trying to be all patriarchal n’ stuff, we barely know what that word means. Our show is in need of a bad-ass, fierce, intelligent, woman word-warrior who would condescend to hang with us and/or represent us at official state functions! This pageant includes, 1.TALENT COMPETITION (duh!) I mean, 5 minutes to rock your best poem, song, dancing routine, etc, 2. REVERSE PANDER HAIKU (tell us we and our show are okay…. in 17 syllables! please!) and the ever unpredictable INTERVIEW w/ NICHOLAS EARL DAVIS portion (you gotta field questions from our irrepressible co-host, these questions go wayyyy past the mundane, Miss Dirty Gerund’s gotta be sharp witted! Past winners include Jackie Morrill, Halliday Nelson, Megan Thoma, Emilee Morreale & Jenith Charpentier, tell me you don’t want to be part of THAT amazing legacy… They’re all much more important than me and Nick Davis will ever be! There’s a sash and prizes!!!!
EXPECT SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY SNACK TIME AMAZINGNESS! Featured visual artist, the incredible ANA PEREZ – most likely a return from MATT & the BASTARDS on house band biz! We expect old and new friends on this open mic, so get down early to sign up! If we’re at or warmer than this past Monday, we’ll try to be outside cause we might need to use all that sky space! YOSH SHARTIN has been with us since the start and is grinning wide, wondering what he ever did before Mondays became awesome! ANY GRAPHIC DESIGN or VISUAL ARTISTS out there interested in proposing a new flier / poster design? Check in with us and we’ll see if we can pay you to work on that! 5 years in the faking? Nah, shit’s just starting to get real!!!!