Name: Open Mic Featuring Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin
Start: 2026-02-10T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-10T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Double House Arts

$Open Mic Featuring Kyla-Y\u1ebfn Hu\u1ef3nh Giffin$

Welcome to Port Veritas! We meet every Tuesday night in person at Double House Arts Collective at 122 Spring St # 1 AND online. We typically end by 8:30 pm EST, but we have the space until 9 pm EST.
In person friends, please remain masked in the building. If you are reading, you may take off your mask only while reading.
Double House Arts has an accessible ramp at the back entrance, and four low steps with railings at the front entrance on Spring Street. Please contact one of PV's organizers beforehand if you need to use the back entrance.
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 Double House Arts 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 of 5 dollars or more are encouraged (Donations will be going to our funds for featured poets). Venmo @ MayaWilliams16, CashApp $williamsmay13, and PayPal at [email protected].
Feel free to also donate to @doublehousearts on Venmo or Double House Arts Collective on Patreon!
Our feature this week is Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin coming to us online!
Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin (they/them) is a queer and trans, biracial, Vietnamese unamerican diaspora writer whose work revolves around themes of dreaming, fantasizing, and futurizing, and focuses on topics of diaspora, transness, ecology, empire, and intergenerational histories. The Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Xenolithic Edges Literary, Kyla-Yến’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions, and appears or is forthcoming in The Offing, ANMLY, fifth wheel press, DISCOUNT GUILLOTINE, and other publications. They are a 2026 BIPOC Fellow for Trans Poetics Archive, a Press Editor for Half Mystic Press, and a Co-Coordinator for Sundress Publications’ Poets in Pajamas reading series, and have taught writing workshops independently as well as for Split This Rock and Table Conversation. They have also been awarded residencies, workshops, and/or fellowships from Tin House, the Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), Seventh Wave, Abode Press, and more. You can visit Kyla-Yến's author page at www.kylayenhuynhgiffin.com, and find them on Instagram @yenshrine.