Stefan Muir, of Carbondale, speaks Thursday during a poetry open mic at The Blue Martin as part of the weekend’s Fuller Future Festival. Muir, who is part of the Transpoetic Playground, said festival organizers asked him to help incorporate the group’s poetry as a way to pay homage to Richard Buckminster Fuller’s written work. “Fuller wrote poetry,” he said. “It seemed like a natural marriage to have the open mic meet with the festival.”

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