 Hey everyone you're about to watch a video that's going to get thousands of views very cool But your ad needs to be right here. Give me a call App-Cycled will be hosting their second poetry slam Thursday, June 1st The slam will feature members of the Pikeville creative community and is open to anyone interested in participating We host events at App-Cycled because we want to bring people downtown to support the local economy And it gives people sort of an incentive almost to come down if there's something to look forward to Pikeville poetry has been a group That was established in 2019 and this is going to be our second poetry night here at App-Cycled They were kind of closed down through COVID And now they're sort of having a resurgence and we Try and support the creative community here And this is definitely something that we Want to give people an outlet for the slam will begin at 6 p.m And is free to attend so the poetry slam lasts about an hour And each participant is given a composition book so they can read write, you know Do whatever they want with that to you know, just create their own mental space inside of it And you can kind of participate at your own will you don't we don't force you to participate We're going to give you a lot of encouragement if you do participate We just want everyone to feel safe and give people a creative outlet To speak their mind on whatever they want to For more information go to App-Cycled on Facebook Reporting for mountaintop news. I'm Brianna Robinson