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Mic Check Poetry Fest: Rudy Francisco featuring Outspoken Bean
![Rudy Francisco and Outspoken Bean Rudy Francisco on left and Outspoken Bean on right performing poetry](https://content.uiowa.edu/sites/content.uiowa.edu/files/rudy_francisco_outspoken_bean_contenthub_1080x1080.jpg)
TICKETS
$15 for adults 19+
$10 for college students with college ID
Pre-paid to Fest Pass holders
Free to youth 13-18 with ID
Presented in collaboration with Mic Check Poetry Fest and Iowa City Poetry
Part of Club Hancher
Part of MicCheck Poetry Fest
Club Hancher hosts day one of a two-day celebration of spoken word and its power to bear witness, create community, and inspire change.
Rudy Francisco has been the National Underground Poetry Slam Champion, the Individual World Poetry Slam Champion, and the National Poetry Slam Champion. He’s performed his work on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and penned six collections of poetry. The accolades are impressive, but his performances are another thing all together. Blending social critique, introspections, honesty, and humor, Francisco hones in on the interconnectedness of human existence.
Spoken word poet Emanuelee Bean is known—appropriately enough—as “Outspoken Bean,” and has been Houston’s Poet Laureate and a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.
“Rudy Francisco had the crowd entranced at his spoken-word poetry performance.” — Iowa State Daily
“[Outspoken Bean] considers himself a poetic ‘producer of experiences,’ whose words live beyond the page.” — Houston Public Media
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