First Tuesdays Presents Lydia Cortés March 24, 2025 2024-2025 When: April 1, 2025 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: $5 First Tuesdays Presents allia abdullah-matta February 24, 2025 2024-2025 When: March 4, 2025 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: $5 First Tuesdays Presents Barry Wallenstein January 27, 2025 2024-2025 When: February 4, 2025 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: First Tuesdays Presents M. M. De Voe December 30, 2024 2024-2025 When: January 7, 2025 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: First Tuesdays Presents Adina Dabija November 25, 2024 current season & 2024-2025 When: December 3, 2024 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: First Tuesdays Presents Jared Beloff October 25, 2024 2024-2025 When: November 5, 2024 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: First Tuesdays Presents Martine Bellen September 23, 2024 2024-2025 When: October 1, 2024 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: First Tuesdays Presents Sokunthary Svay August 26, 2024 2024-2025 When: September 3, 2024 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: The Cento for April 2, 2024 April 2, 2024 2023-2024 i. Like a blob of snot dangling from god’s left nostril, everything is becoming artificial quickly. Give me a voice, give me a new face, jaws First Tuesdays Presents Sam Peterson October 30, 2023 2023-2024 When: November 7, 2023 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: The Cento for September 12, 2023 September 12, 2023 2023-2024 During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. On September 12, This Video Was Made From the May 2, 2017 Cento July 10, 2023 2022-2023 During every First Tuesdays open mic, we communally compose a cento using language taken from each open-mic reader’s offering. On May 2, 2107, those The Cento for May 2, 2023 May 2, 2023 2022-2023 Wrapped in the neon of the city, I love you because the moon is spinning backwards. Evolved enough to cradle in a child’s joined hands, the First Tuesdays Presents Andrea Carter Brown May 2, 2023 current season & 2022-2023 When: May 2, 2023 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 9:00 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: $5 The Cento for April 4, 2023 April 4, 2023 2022-2023 Why do I belong in this narrow street, the garbageman’s garbageman’s refuse, romantic remnants in decay? We are lonely, lonely, born to be lonely. First Tuesdays Presents Nandana Dev Sen March 30, 2023 current season & 2022-2023 When: April 4, 2023 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: $5 First Tuesdays Presents Elizabeth Wood March 7, 2023 current season & 2022-2023 When: March 7, 2023 Where: Espresso 77 Café, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Time: 7:00 — 8:30 PM (open-mic sign up at 6:30) Cost: $5 The Cento for March 7, 2023 March 7, 2023 Centos & 2022-2023 Never Blinking, Never Not Longing I could never become a speaker. I could never master the art of winning the hearts of millions. Mine has been The Cento for February 7, 2023 February 7, 2023 Cento & 2022-2023 Make Sure You Adjust Your Tension Pinky hooked around pinky, crab claw clasp, the well is invisible. That’s why its presence weighs on the The Cento for January 3, 2023 January 3, 2023 centos & 2022-2023 You whispered back to me your favorite line, not too much blood, but it hurt, bodies twitching to Hacket’s horn as it smoked the blues, always a