The nights are a little longer, the sky is a little warmer, come hang out with the poets on Ralph’s patio.

OUR FEATURE: Julie River was born in Neptune, New Jersey, but she grew up in the great state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. She graduated from Emerson College with a double major in Film and English, then returned to Emerson for a Master’s degree in Media Studies. She also got accepted to a PhD program in Media Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, but she left before beginning her dissertation to pursue interests outside of academia.Julie River started her writing career at 17 when she wandered into a poetry slam and said to herself “Hey, I can do this.” Julie has been on 10 poetry slam teams in three different cities: Providence, RI; Worcester, MA; and Denver, CO. In each of those three cities, she has been the city slam champion at least once. She also represented the Denver Mercury Cafe at the 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam in Cleveland, and served as co-slammaster of the Denver Mercury Cafe Slam for a few years ear in the 2010s.Julie began her career as an entertainment journalist in 2016 when she started writing for Punknews.org, but when editor Jeff Sorley left Punknews to start ThatsGoodEnoughForMe.com, Julie left with him to help him build the new site. She now also writes for Out Front Magazine, New Noise Magazine, and MetalSucks.net.For more information, check out JulieRiver.com

TIP YOUR BARTENDER AND BRING YOUR EMPTIES BACK TO THE BAR ❤️

Come on down to read your work, tell your jokes, bear your soul UNDER THE STAAAAAHS*

*We are outside out front on the patio most weeks between now and November. If it rains, or is unseasonably below 55° before 7 PM, we typically go back inside. The crew does our best every week to make the call as close to show time as possible if the forcast is iffy; the winds in Worcester’s hills can make storm clouds hard to read, and as much as we all love a Creed moment bearing our soul in the pouring rain, our electronics do not. Please check our Instagram story or Discord before arrival if you need an indoor/outdoor check, and assume sun in the sky and no news is good (outside) news until at least October.

IMPORTANT: outdoor season is upon us, but Ralph’s is still a 21+ venue. This means the show is 21+ inside AND outside. If you sneek onto the patio underage, you will get banned, and the show could get outside privileges revoked. Don’t be that person. We will still be slinging poems in this lot when you reach 21 years old.

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