Tuesday, Dec.10, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Tuesday Night Open Mic Series at the Em Tea Coffeecup Café. All are welcome whether new to poetry or a long-time member of the community. 80 Oakgrove Ave., Buffalo, NY. Free and open to the public.

Tuesday, Dec. 10, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Tuesdays at Cabernet, monthly open mic poetry and prose reading series hosted by Sinead Tyrone. Cabernet’s Wine Café , 9 N. Ellicott St., Williamsville.

Wednesday, Dec. 11, 9 p.m.: Poetry Night at Caffe Aroma, biweekly open mic reading series hosted by Ben Brindise and Justin Karcher. 957 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. Free and open to the public.

Friday, Dec. 13, 8:30 pm.: Ground & Sky Poetry open Mic at Caffe Aroma hosted by Joel Lesses. 957 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. Free and open to the public.

Saturday, Dec. 14, 2 p.m. to 4 pm.: Poet Rachelle Toarmino will read from her new manuscript Audiobiography in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition visual artist Dana Murray Tyrrell’s Love Canal paintings.

Rachelle Toarmino is a poet and multidisciplinary writer from Niagara Falls, New York. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection That Ex (Big Lucks Books, 2020) and several chapbooks, most recently Comeback (Foundlings Press, 2021). Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Electric Literature, Iterant, Literary Hub, Poets.org, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in poetry at UMass Amherst, where she received an Academy of American Poets Prize. She is also the founding editor in chief of the literary journal Peach Mag and the creator and lead instructor of Beauty School, an independent poetry school. She lives in Buffalo.

Earl W. Brydges Public Library, 1425 Main St. in Niagara Falls, NY. The event is free and open to the public.