At metal concerts at small venues, all the bands that play that night (often three) usually sell their merch, CDs and Demos, I don't see anything wrong with doing it for poetry unless as Thump says it goes against the improptu or anticapitalist
vibe you would like to create. It would look better if more than one participant had something in any case.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition