The F-bomb returns to The Mercury Cafe on Tuesday April 18 at 7:30 PM. Our theme for the night will be Blurry Lines, playing with the intersection between poetry and prose in honor of National Poetry Month. April host K.B. Jensen says “I’ve always been fascinated by the space between poetry and flash and sometimes lack thereof,” so bring your best poetic prose (or prose-y poetry) and share it as part of our 4-5 minute open mic spots!

Our feature for April is the wonderful Stina French! We hope to see you there!

HOST K.B. JENSEN is an award-winning author, with two novels, Painting With Fire, an artistic murder mystery, and A Storm of Stories, which veers literary and handles love, craziness and impossibility. Her recent collection of short stories, Love and Other Monsters in the Dark, is out. K.B. lives in Littleton with her family and rescue mutt. She enjoys skiing and writing poetry. Her work has appeared in Progenitor, Cherry Magazine, New Feathers Anthology, Poetry Potion, and more. A former crime reporter and journalist, K.B. shifted to the publishing world in 2014, and is a senior publishing consultant and youth writing camp director for My Word Publishing. 

FEATURE STINA FRENCH is a performer who specializes in vulnerable and graphic representations of sexuality, repression, and the healing process. She writes erotic mystery, magic-realist flash memoir, and poetry. She’s featured in many Colorado venues, and her work has appeared in Jen Pastiloff’s Manifest Station, Heavy Feather Review, South Broadway Ghost Society, Punch Drunk Press, among others. She leads monthly generative writing workshops and hosts the event, “listen to your skin: an erotic open-mic series” (last Sunday of each month). She wears welts from the Bible Belt, and is currently editing Take The Fruit, Flood The Desert: A Religious Trauma Abuse Anthology. She’s working on a manuscript, Also Arc, Also Offering, a Southern-queerdo memoir. Find her on IG at sister_rainbow_scream or visit her website, sisterrainbowscream.com.