Poetry Open Mic Featuring Grant Peeples

We’re eager to bring back poetry and storytelling to the Pavilions at MFB, and we welcome you to come in on Tuesday February 5th beginning at 7:00pm. Sign up on arrival for a ten-minute spot to share your original poetry, prose, or story or bring a selection from your favorite poet/author. Or come make a new friend, and just listen.

Join Grant as he reads selections from his newly published poetry book, My Advice to Pilgrims. There’ll be a few songs thrown in the mix too!

“For me, poems are kind of like the AK-47s of writing,” Grant Peeples said in a recent radio interview. “Quick, efficient and potentially lethal.”

And My Advice to Pilgrims released in September 2018 by Mezcalita Press, would seem to represent this view.

“If you aspire to lead a good life, please read My Advice to Pilgrims. ‘We must be willing to allow the horizon to swallow us whole,’ Grant Peeples writes. It is the first of many passages I intend to quote in my own books. Wisdom animates Peeples’ every poem, also courage and stoicism and, beyond that, an unflinching vision of who we humans are, and where we are going.” says Florida author, historian, and journalist T.D. Allman (Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, New York Times, National Geographic).

Come see what it’s all about and pick up your signed copy of My Advice to Pilgrims!