Open Mouth Literary Center

Open Mouth Literary Center

creating poetry readings, access, & community collaboration

Select a membership level

Support our Zoom subscription

$1
/ month
Help us pay for online events! Online events are inherently more accessible, and we plan to continue to host online/hybrid events (film and simultaneously cast in-person events online with someone moderating the chat) even after we go back to in-person events, so we need to continue our Zoom subscription indefinitely. At this support level, you get:
  • Direct access to Zoom registration links for monthly events, so you don’t have to go through Eventbrite to register.
  • Early access to recorded workshops and readings before they go on YouTube.
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Support our website

$5
/ month
Help us pay to have an online presence! Our website helps us reach you, our audience, more effectively. It’s where we post about all of our events. At this support level, you get:
  • All of the above benefits, plus membership discounts on classes offered by Open Mouth and your name listed on our website as one of our supporters.

Support ASL at Readings and Workshops

$10
/ month
Help us ensure that we can continue to make our monthly events more accessible by contributing to our ASL interpretation fees. Our interpreter does an amazing job, and we know interpreting poetry can be particularly challenging. ASL interpreters deserve to be paid for their labor, and we are happy to be able to pay for this service. At this support level, you get:
  • All of the above benefits, plus an Open Mouth sticker sent to you (please provide your address when you join!).

Support CART technology

$20
/ month
Help us increase access at our events! The auto-captions provided by Zoom are only about 80% accurate, but CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) writers see the text in advance and are able to prepare, making their captions much more accurate (98% and above!). We haven’t had the funding for this in the past, but we would really like to start. As poets, we know that every word in each poem is chosen carefully, and we want our live captions to reflect those careful word choices and show each word as the poet intended. If we get enough supporters at this level, we will start having CART writers at our monthly events. At this support level, you get:
  • All of the above benefits, plus a personalized thank-you postcard signed by the Open Mouth Literary Center Team (please provide your address when you join!).

Give a Poet Some Space

$50
/ month
All funds from this funding level go directly toward supporting the Open Mouth Literary Center’s Residency on Mt. Sequoyah. Help us ensure that we can continue to support local writers by providing one poet the time and space to work on their creative projects each month. This can be very valuable for any writer without a designated writing space at home, and we prioritize writers without other institutional support. We only need three supporters at this level to be able to continue our residency indefinitely. By supporting this tier you get:
  • All benefits from previous tiers
  • A personalized monthly postcard signed by the Poet-in-Residence at Mt. Sequoyah (please provide your address when you join!), and your name on our residency.
  • Our website will list you as one of the funders, and all promotional materials related to the residency will list your name as one of the funders. EX: The Open Mouth Literary Center’s Residency on Mt. Sequoyah, funded by [your name here].

Support our Staff

$100
/ month
Making our events accessible is a lot of work, and we need to pay our staff who gather access materials, get materials to ASL interpreters and CART writers so they can prepare, gather links in advance of readings, write image descriptions and alt text, and monitor the chat during readings, as well as working to promote the events so you know when they are happening. We value their labor and we want to ensure we can pay them for their time. At this support level, you get:
  • All benefits from $20/mo and below tiers (excludes $50/mo benefits), and our website will list you as a top-tier funder. 
  • We will include your name in our newsletter and on social media to express our gratitude publicly. 
  • In addition, our team would be happy to workshop a piece you have written and offer our feedback (up to 10 pages), free of charge. Email us at [email protected] to set this up when you sign up.

Support our Zoom subscription

$1
/ month
Help us pay for online events! Online events are inherently more accessible, and we plan to continue to host online/hybrid events (film and simultaneously cast in-person events online with someone moderating the chat) even after we go back to in-person events, so we need to continue our Zoom subscription indefinitely. At this support level, you get:
  • Direct access to Zoom registration links for monthly events, so you don’t have to go through Eventbrite to register.
  • Early access to recorded workshops and readings before they go on YouTube.
MOST POPULAR

Support our website

$5
/ month
Help us pay to have an online presence! Our website helps us reach you, our audience, more effectively. It’s where we post about all of our events. At this support level, you get:
  • All of the above benefits, plus membership discounts on classes offered by Open Mouth and your name listed on our website as one of our supporters.

Support ASL at Readings and Workshops

$10
/ month
Help us ensure that we can continue to make our monthly events more accessible by contributing to our ASL interpretation fees. Our interpreter does an amazing job, and we know interpreting poetry can be particularly challenging. ASL interpreters deserve to be paid for their labor, and we are happy to be able to pay for this service. At this support level, you get:
  • All of the above benefits, plus an Open Mouth sticker sent to you (please provide your address when you join!).

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patrons

$316

per month

About Open Mouth Literary Center

Goals
$315.61 of $677 per month
When we reach $677 per month, we will be able to pay our featured poets each month, as well as ensure that all monthly readings and workshops can continue to have community-supported ASL interpretation, captioning, and access documents, even after our grant funding runs out.
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Writings
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Videos

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