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Welcome to Port Veritas! We meet every Tuesday night in person at Double House Arts Collective 122 Spring St #1 in Portland 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 PV organizers in advance if you need the the ramp 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].
Consider also donating to @doublehousearts on Venmo and Double House Arts Collective on Patreon.
Our feature this week is Mira Ptacin coming to us in person!
Mira Ptacin is a literary journalist, memoirist, New York Times–bestselling ghostwriter, editor, and professor of creative writing. She is the author of the award-winning memoir Poor Your Soul (Soho Press, 2016), named a Best Memoir of the Year by Kirkus Reviews as well as the Junior Library Guild Selection of the Year; and The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna (Liveright–W. W. Norton & Company, 2019), a genre-blending work of feminist history, memoir, and ethnography, which the New York Times praised as ideal pandemic reading. The In-Betweens was recently acquired by CBS studios to be adapted for a film series by Steven Canals (creator of the FX series Pose) and Uzo Aduba (Orange is the New Black). Mira is the 2026 Maine Art Commission Fellow for literary arts, and was the 2025-2026 inaugural writer-in-residence at Mechanics Hall. For nearly two decades, she has taught memoir and nonfiction writing in both traditional and nontraditional spaces, including inside prisons, where she leads long-running writing programs for incarcerated women.
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