The Open Stanza off-pages it every time with living talent from slam to sonnet, from Los Angeles to Hong Kong. The monthly mix you've grown to love is now in its 5th season of the best of local & visiting, living talent. No dead(ening) poets here.

Whether you're on stage that night or all-ears from the audience, The Open Stanza is the monthly spot for local international poets, writers, performance and spoken word artists, musicians and DJs. Meet the folks behind Versal, Amsterdam's only international lit mag, and become part of the crowd that is putting Amsterdam back on the international literary map.

From the Presses:
The Open Stanza [is]...unpredictable, focused and above all fun; adjectives not readily applied to recited poetry. That however is the point - squirming out of the rigidity of expectations is just the kind of task that wordsinhere does best.