Entrepreneurship

Mitch "Poet like Poe" Burns and Marcel "Fable" Price open show

At Put Up or Shut Up the crowd pays attention

When two poets decide that an audience at open mic should give an artist more respect, they came up with a way to make that happen. In Kalamazoo, they call it Put Up or Shut Up. 

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