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.

8:30 PM, $2-7 SUGGESTED DONATION
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OUR FEATURE: Lynne Schmidt (she/they) is the queer, disabled, neurodivergent grandchild of a Holocaust survivor, and a mental health professional with a focus in trauma and healing. They are the 2025 Maine Arts Fellow, the second-place winner of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies Founders Contest, winner of the 2021 The Poetry Question Chapbook Contest, 2020 New Women’s Voices Contest. Lynne is the authors the chapbooks, The Unaccounted For Circles Of Hell, SexyTime, Dead Dog Poems, and Gravity. When given the choice, Lynne prefers the company of her pack of dogs and one cat to humans.

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TIP YOUR BARTENDER AND BRING YOUR EMPTIES BACK TO THE BAR ❤️ thank u. I love u

8:30 PM 21+ $2-7 SUGGESTED DONATION
CASH BAR ▪︎ ATM ON SITE