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Every 1st Sunday of the poets, poets, rappers, comedians, beatboxers, hiphoppers, and many more gather at HopMonk Tavern for the Northbay Poetry Slam!

A stage that brings in internation touring poets to poets that have never held a microphone.

The atmosphere is friendly, but real. This is place that you're going to laugh, cry, shout, and get some raw truth. Beatboxers, MC's, poets, story tellers, comedians and much more from across the west coast.

This Months Slam will be hosted by Jacob Ward from Eat The Worm Records.

Featuring Riis Larsen.

Riis Harlan Larsen was born on October 22, 1988 at 4:20 am after 26 hours of labor in Redwood City, California. Since then, he's been stirring up trouble in whichever neighborhood he calls local. Originally a Santa Rosa native, he was transplanted by his parents to Lake County at the age of five with the arrival of his younger brother, Dane. The family sought a small, peaceful, gated community called Hidden Valley where they could raise their children away from the bustle of Sonoma County. They thought wrong!

After enduring a grueling divorce, exposing himself to the drug-riddled underbelly of Lake County, and being steeped in the twisted, hick-driven thought patterns of rural America, the adult Riis reemerged onto the Sonoma County scene to speak his mind and reel in the repercussions. With a scarred sense of sanctity, an insatiable appetite for the abstract, and a fierce conviction to proclaim the truth, Riis performs pieces that not only offer a glimpse at the grand possibilities of the human experiment, but an unforgiving rake through the thickest muck of reality's ruts.

Sign ups 745-815pm

Poetry Open Mic 8pm

Featured poet 830pm

SLAM 9pm

All Ages/$5 cover/1st sundays

All Are Welcome! Bring your friends!

All ticketed shows are standing-room only with limited seating, unless otherwise designated.

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Riis Larsen