Writers & Readers Open Mic featuring M.P. Carver

On Monday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m., the Open Mic at Abbot Public Library will reconvene and feature M.P. Carver, a poet and visual artist from Salem, Mass. She is Director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, miCrO-Founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag, and teaches creative and digital writing at Salem State University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Rattle, Mantis, Jubilat, and Love’s Executive Order, among others. She has received funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Essex Community Foundation. In 2023 her poem "In Vitro" was named a finalist in the Connecticut River Review's Experimental Poetry Contest, and in 2022 her poem “You & God & I” was awarded the New England Poetry Club’s E.E. Cummings Prize. For more information, visit masspoetry.org/getting-to-know-m-p-carver.

While M.P. is the featured reader, the Open Mic is exactly that – open to readers and writers of various genres: poetry, fiction and nonfiction. The evening begins at 7 p.m., but please arrive early to sign up for a spot on the readers’ list. 

Registration is required. Please register at tinyurl.com/Nov-2026-Open-Mic.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of Abbot Public Library.