Presented in collaboration with Mic Check Poetry Fest and Iowa City Poetry

Part of Hancher's 52nd Season

Part of Club Hancher

Part of Mic Check Poetry Fest

Club Hancher hosts day one of a two-day celebration of spoken word and its power to bear witness, create community, and inspire change. 

Rudy Francisco has been the National Underground Poetry Slam Champion, the Individual World Poetry Slam Champion, and the National Poetry Slam Champion. He’s performed his work on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and penned six collections of poetry. The accolades are impressive, but his performances are another thing all together. Blending social critique, introspections, honesty, and humor, Francisco hones in on the interconnectedness of human existence.

Spoken word poet Emanuelee Bean is known—appropriately enough—as “Outspoken Bean,” and has been Houston’s Poet Laureate and a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.

“Rudy Francisco had the crowd entranced at his spoken-word poetry performance.” — Iowa State Daily

“[Outspoken Bean] considers himself a poetic ‘producer of experiences,’ whose words live beyond the page.” — Houston Public Media

Rudy Francisco Website

Outspoken Bean Website

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