CALIFORNIA	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
BERKELEY Berkeley Poetry Slam The Starry Plough 3101 Shattuck Avenue (510) 841-2082   LOS ANGELES The Greenway Court Theatre "Da' Poetry Lounge" 544 North Fairfax Avenue (near Melrose)   Email: shihanvc@hotmail.com   Magic Johnson's Starbucks "Spoken Words" 5301 Centinela Blvd. For more info, contact AliceThePoet@aol.com or call (310) 338-1297   OAKLAND World Ground Cafe Poetry Diversified  3726 MacArthur (510) 482-2933   Javah House "Cultural Cafe" 3905 Lakeshore Ave (510) 836-5282	SAN FRANCISCO Simple Pleasures Cafe Open Mic 3434 Balboa Street (Between 35th & 36th Avenue) (415) 387-4022   Mangos 2017 14th Street NW Washington, DC $5 Cover Charge Arrive @ at 8:00 PM (near corner of 14th & U St NW across from the Reeves Center   Sankofa Video & Books 2714 Georgia Avenue, NW Washington, DC (near Howard University) For More Info Call: (202) 234-4755   Toka's Cafe 1140 19th Street, NW Washington, DC $5 Cover Charge Doors open at 7:00 PM
FLORIDA	ILLINOIS
ORLANDO Broken Speech @ Common Grounds Stardust Video & Coffee 1842 Winter Park Road	CHICAGO Spoken Word /Open Mikes /Poetry Slams, Etc.
MARYLAND	NEW YORK
BALTIMORE Organic Soul Tuesdays Saratoga Lounge 218 W. Saratoga Street (between Park Ave. & Howard St.) Tuesdays 7:30 PM (410) 358-6484   SILVER SPRING Wordsmith Cafe @ Izora Restaurant & Nite Club 1115 East-West Highway (301) 495-2960	BROOKLYN Soloman's Porch 307 Stuyvesant Avenue (corner of Halsey Avenue) Thursday Night, 7:00 PM (718) 919 8001     NEW YORK CITY Nuyorican Poet's Cafe 236 East 3rd Street   InspiredWordNYC Blogspot and poetry & spoken word venues
OHIO
CLEVELAND   Lyrical Rhythms B Side Liquor Lounge 2785 Euclid Heights Blvd Cleveland, OH qnice@chiefrocka.com http://www.myspace.com/chiefrockaent216   COLUMBUS Writers' Block Poetry Night Every Wednesday at Kafe Kerouac 2250 N. High St. (north of Lane/south of Hudson)    Columbus, OH 43201 Phone: (614) 299-2672          http://www.writersblockpoetry.com	COLUMBUS   First Draft Poetry Night (3rd Friday of the month) @ Kafe Kerouac 2250 N. High Street Columbus, Ohio http://www.writersblockpoetry.com Black Pearl Poetry Club Ice 40 E. Long St. Columbus, Ohio 43215 http://www.myspace.com/edmabrey   http://www.myspace.com/blackpearlpoetry   Wet Ink Poetry BOMA (Bar of Modern Art) 583 East Broad Street Columbus, OH http://www.myspace.com/wetinkpoetry   http://www.myspace.com/doniellemonique
TEXAS
DALLAS Sankofa Poetry 1908 Martin Luther King Blvd. Doors open at 7:00 PM   Betwixt and Between 813 Exposition Avenue Doors open at 8:00 PM Call (214) 821-3340   Zen & Sufi Poetry and Stories Cosmic Cafe 2912 Oak Lawn Doors open at 8:00 PM Call (214) 521-5167