Stone Soup Poetry meets every
Monday from 7-9 p.m. every
Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at
541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On
September 26, we offer art and real insights as an alternative to the spectacle of the impending debates. Come by Monday and hear M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T. have his feature at Stone Soup.
Tarishi
M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T. Shuler is an all around artist. Tarishi is native of
New Haven, CT. He has performed and won various poetry slams across the
country. Places such as the Nuyorican Poets Café, The Inspired Word, Bar
13 in New York City, The Lizard Lounge in Boston, MA, Five Seasons Café
in Baltimore, MD, The Bushnell Theater in Hartford, CT, the Nuyorican
Cafe in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and many more.
He recently
won 1st place at The Martin Luther King Jr. Family Festival of
Environmental and Social Justice / Zannette Lewis Invitational Poetry
Slam at the Yale Peabody Museum in 2016. In 2016 he opened for Saul Williams at Wesleyan University. In 2012 he opened for President Bill Clinton at the Madison Ballroom in Time Square for Love146 10th Anniversary. He has won the title of CT Grandslam Champion in 2016, 2012 and 2011, He was the 2015 and 2016 Slammaster of the CT National Poetry Slam Team Verbal Slap. He has been competing on a national level at the National Poetry Slam each year since 2011 - 2016.
Besides doing
art, Tarishi works for the Discovery Center a nonprofit, diversity and
antiracism training program serving elementary and middle school's
throughout Connecticut. He has won first place at the McDonald's McCafe Poetry Slam in NY for 2010, 2012, 2013 & 2016. He has also appeared on HOT97 radio station in NY. He performed a poem for the 15th anniversary for 9/11.
You can learn more about Tarishi at his website.
