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Welcome to Port Veritas! We meet every Tuesday night in person at the Equality Community Center at 15 Casco St in Portland AND online. We typically end by 9:30 pm, but we have the space until 10 pm.In person friends, please remained masked in the building. If you are reading, you may take off your mask only while reading.
The ECC has an accessible ramp at the North entrance, and three low steps with railings at the front entrance on Casco Street.
You may use this link to join us virtually:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/893705103
Please feel free to sign up for our open mic upon entering the ECC or in the chat online!
Automatic closed captions are available online. Our feature's set list transcript will be made available for folks who need it.
Donations are encouraged (Donations will be going to our funds for featured poets). Venmo @ MayaWilliams16, CashApp $williamsmay13, and PayPal at [email protected].
Our feature this week is A. Nicole Sessions coming to us online!
Alafia Nicole Sessions is a black poet and mother living in Atlanta. She currently works as an educator, actress, herbalist and birthworker. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in POETRY, Cincinnati Review, Ecopoetry Anthology, Southern Humanities Review, Indiana Review, Los Angeles Review, Obsidian and elsewhere. Alafia is the recipient of awards and support from Sustainable Arts Foundation and Yaddo. She was selected by Evie Shockley as the winner of the 2023 Furious Flower Prize. She was twice nominated for Best New Poets and was a semi-finalist for the 92Y Discovery Prize and a finalist for the Sewanee Poetry Contest.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Equality Community Center - ECC, 15 Casco St,Portland,ME,United States
