Open Mic Featuring Blue Nguyễn

Name: Open Mic Featuring Blue Nguyễn
Start: 2026-02-24T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-24T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Double House Arts

Schedule

Tue Feb 24 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Double House Arts | Portland, ME

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 (that needs to be fixed currently) and four low steps with railings at the front entrance on Spring 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 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 Blue Nguyễn coming to us online!
Blue Đào Nguyễn (IG: @blue.ngu) is a Vietnamese-Teochew (潮州話) non-binary lesbian poet, artist, and organizer. Their work, inspired by cartography and Vietnamese architectural symbolism, explores grief, prayer, and livelihood through poetry, oral history, and traditional Viet woodworking & fiber art, using organic materials. Material as altar : Poetics as prayer. Author of Hey Siri, What Time is it in Vietnam? (GameOverBooks, 2025) and an Associate Editor at Iron Horse Literary Review their work is featured in Foglifter, Palette Poetry, & more. They’re a fellowship/scholarship/residency recipient of Kundiman, LAMBDA Literary, Fine Arts Work Center. More of their work can be found at bluenguyen.com.