His band, the Oscar Fuentes Combo, will also perform. Tonight, Oscar Fuentes, known as the Biscayne Poet, will perform beat poetry from his latest book, Vagabond. That’s cool too as long as we still can find a place to do what we do." Most places now where you perform standup, you can also drink a beer and just chill. But then the city changed again, and here we are. "At one point, there were no open mikes, and then this city started to change, and every place was conducive to having a stage, having live music. "We have to change with the gentrification," Blake says. It's a much-needed training ground for a community of artists that is continuously being displaced due to rapid development. The Imperial provides a space for artists to hone their craft intimately among supportive locals. "I've watched people develop, break shells, become artists." I've known these people since Vagabond," the artist says. But since early February, the creative team has been at the Citadel, a space exclusively for "makers, artists, designers, and entrepreneurs," its website boasts. As the party raged upstairs, the Imperial could not function smoothly downstairs. They went to the Electric Pickle, where Telescope Thieves hosts a weekly Tuesday-night party, the Love Below. I couldn’t fight it - I told my team we had to go." "I would feel it when I crossed the bridge. Then the organizers begrudgingly moved it to Brickell. "Brickell was way too far away from the creative energy," he adds. "Like a lot of things in Miami, our location has changed," Blake explains. The event lasted at the Stage for two years before the space shut down. Now called the Imperial, which brings together local poets and musicians for an evening of expression, has finally found its groove again. But poets and artists can finally rest easy. Since then, the open mike, hosted by local artist Marcus Blake, has hopped around from the Stage in the Design District to Sidebar in Brickell and even the Electric Pickle. Some may remember the event as Stone Groove, which ran every Tuesday night for six years in downtown's now-defunct Vagabond. One of Miami's longest-running open-mike nights has found a new home in Made at the Citadel.
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