We welcome you to come in on Tuesday April 2nd 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.

Admission is free, and during the event, all cash and credit card purchases will be 10% off, and poetry books will be 15% off!

Poet and author, T.B. Darks is a budding intellectual, originally from Cincinnati. While currently studying at FAMU, in the disciplines of Sociology and Philosophy, Darks hopes to influence the community by educating the public and through everyday activism. She’ll be reading from her poetry collection: Caged: A Poetic Collection of the African American Experience and signing copies at the end of the event. Starting with the arrival of Africans on America’s shores, Caged explores the impact that slavery has had on the African American community. Darks addresses the idea that slavery never truly ended, and continues to thrive in different forms. While raising the question of modern-day slavery, she expressing her thoughts and opinions on the psychological self and how the past and present external forces still affect the African American community today.

Our host, Linda Marie, holds an MFA in painting with a minor in Women’s Studies from the University of South Florida, and a BFA from the University of Hawaii. She is a symbolist painter, writer, poet, and playwright. Linda Marie’s poetry has been published in The Texas Observer, Hawaii Review, Blue Hole, and Enigmatist among other poetry publications, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Before moving to Tallahassee recently, she was the host of Austin Poetry Society’s monthly poetry venue for 6 years. She is excited to be the new host of My Favorite Books’ poetry and storytelling open mic, and is looking forward to meeting and introducing many local poets, storytellers, and writers!