Open Mic Featuring t love smith

Name: Open Mic Featuring t love smith
Start: 2024-10-01T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-01T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Equality Community Center - ECC

Schedule

Tue Oct 01 2024 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Equality Community Center - ECC | Portland, ME

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 remain 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 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].
Our feature this week is t love smith coming to us in person!
t love smith (they/them) is a queer poet inhabiting unceded Wabanaki land, a Stonecoast MFA Candidate interning at MWPA and The Telling Room. As a GRO Scholar, t is curating a series of events for their Trans Poetics Archive project which will culminate Spring 2025, with a Maine Transgender Poetry Anthology publication. t represented Portland, Maine at multiple NPS competitions and twice opened for the Grammy-award winning singer/songwriter and poet, Mary Lambert. t’s poetry has been published in new words press vol. 3, Island Ink issue 2, Oddball Magazine, the Free Press, as well as presented on local radio podcasts: Transgender Poetics on WMPG and Poems from Here on Maine Public Radio.