November Sydney Poetry Lounge - Jane Williams & Joachim Li w/ OPEN MIC
Description
Welcome back to the November 2026 chapter of the Sydney Poetry Lounge, featuring poetry from Jane Williams, Joachim Li, and our incredible open mic! Join us upstairs at The Glebe Hotel for a night filled with powerful spoken word performances and heartfelt poetry.
$10 entry, $5 concession, tickets available on the door or via Humanitix.
15 x 2-minute open mic slots available, sign-up at the door from 6:30pm.
We appreciate the creativity and talent of our community, and as such have a policy of no AI use, which we hope will be respected by like-minded performers.
Lineup
Jane Williams
Jane Williams is a Lutruwita/Tasmania-based poet who has been widely published and anthologised since the early 1990s. She has featured at readings and festivals in countries including the U.S., Malaysia, Ireland and Czech Republic. Awards and residencies include the Anne Elder Award, the Dinny O’Hearn Fellowship at the University of Melbourne and a three-month residency in 2016 at the Bridge Guard Residential Art/Science Centre in Štúrovo, Slovakia. In 2024 Jane held a six-week residency in the Stratford-upon-Avon district of England to work on poems for her tenth collection ‘afterimage - poems from the family album and elsewhere' (Puncher & Wattmann 2026)
Joachim Li
Joachim Li is a nonbinary poet, storyteller and event producer born and raised on China’s east coast and now based in Gadigal. They believe in the power of naming and mythologising the ordinary. They are the co‑founder of Licensed Poetics, a storytelling podcast dedicated to amplifying BIPOC voices. Joachim has performed at the State Library of NSW and the Art Gallery of NSW, and their writing appears in Locative Magazine and Petal Magazine. They are the author of the poetry chapbook Devices of Body (Incision Press, 2026).
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