Name: VCR
Start: 2026-10-24T16:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-10-24T17:30:00.000Z
Location: Haymarket Lounge at City Winery Boston

 VCR DIASPOETIC live on October 24th at 12pm. 

VCR: Diaspoetic turns City Winery Boston into a room built entirely around the spoken word, a sistaz edition where an all-female lineup of guest performers shares the stage with a Boston poetry institution.

Expect a night that moves like a conversation, not a lecture. VCR, the Dorchester-raised voice behind two decades of Boston's spoken word scene, hosts and headlines alongside a curated group of female poets, each bringing her own rhythm and perspective to the mic. The energy shifts performer to performer, from sharp social commentary to tender personal storytelling, but the through-line is craft. This is poetry built to be heard live, felt in the room, and remembered after.

VCR's own delivery carries the weight of someone who has shared stages with The Last Poets and Saul Williams and performed his work from the Nuyorican Poets Café to Havana, so expect precision alongside passion. Paired with an all-female bill, the night takes on a distinct charge, voices in dialogue rather than a single narrative.

Settle in with a glass of wine and let the words do the work. This is City Winery's intimate setting doing what it does best: making space for art that deserves close listening.

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City Winery Boston presents VCR DIASPOETIC live on October 24th at 12pm.  VCR (Vernon C. Robinson) is a Dorchester native born and raised in Boston. He has been writing, reciting and performing poetry/spoken word for over 20 years and has performed at several local spots as a feature and participant. He has poetically graced the same stage and opened up for such acts as Dead Prez, S.O.S. Band, Amiri Baraka, The Last Poets, Les Nubians, Saul Williams, Jessica Care Moore, Michel’le and other well-known artists. Besides Massachusetts, he has taken his poetry at cities and states such as New York (including the famous Nuyorican Poets Café), Atlanta, Chicago, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Dallas, Cleveland, New Hampshire, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Denver and surprisingly Cuba in front of the late legendary Assata Shakur. VCR is also the founder and cultural event organizer of BloodSkinLand Productions. From that umbrella, he has created many annual gatherings which includes Megacipher, Young Gifted & Black and the popular ongoing gathering called VerBaLizAtiOn, which is currently the longest-running open mic spot in the Boston area of nearly two decades.

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