Our exciting "1st Wednesday" series continues with Open Mic, SLAM competition and guest poet Sam Sax! And, don't forget, our slam is at Barnes & Noble at 230 Main Street in downtown White Plains January through September 2017! Sam Sax is the author of Madness (Penguin 2017), the winner of The National Poetry Series selected by Terrance Hayes. His second book ‘Bury It’ will be out on Wesleyan University Press in 2018. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary, & The Michener Center for Writers where he served as the Editor-in-chief of Bat City Review. He’s the two time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion & author of four chapbooks All The Rage (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016) Straight (Winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize, 2016) Sad Boy / Detective (Winner of The Black Lawrence Chapbook Prize, 2015) A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters (Button Poetry, 2014). He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award & has poems forthcoming in Agni, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Guernica, Poetry Magazine, and other journals. To take part in the open mic or slam, please register at 6:30 pm. Slammers should bring one original poem of up to 3 minutes. Registration closes promptly at 7, and the program starts shortly thereafter. Co-hosted by local poet and slam-master Eric ZORK Alan. All are welcome! Questions? Contact program librarian Ben Himmelfarb by phone (422-6980) or e-mail (). Poetry Slam is a project of the White Plains Library Foundation.