Biker Poet to Headline Open-Mike Night

EDITOR'S NOTE: This event has been postponed until early May. Bryn Mawr Now will post more information as it becomes available.

Samantha Barrow, a performance poet hailed by Jersey Beat as "one of the gutsiest, most provocative performers I've seen," will read from her new book, GRIT and Tender Membrane, on Thursday, March 22, at 8 p.m. Barrow's performance, to take place in Canaday Library's Lusty Cup Café, will headline an open-mike night hosted by the Bryn Mawr Women's Center and the editors of Kaleidoscope. The event is expected to last until midnight.

Barrow, a favorite of poetry-slam audiences around the United States, is a Philadelphia-based poet, activist, educator, spoken-word artist and producer. She first gained recognition locally and nationally when she embarked on a three-month, cross-country spoken-word tour on her motorcycle. That trip, funded by a grant from the Leeway Foundation, is recounted in poetry and prose in GRIT and Tender Membrane. Last summer, the Leeway Foundation funded a second cross-country bike tour, on which Barrow read from the book and conducted workshops on erotic poetry for survivors of sexual abuse.

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