Open Mic Featuring Anthony Thomas Lombardi, 26 August | Event in Portland | AllEvents

Open Mic Featuring Anthony Thomas Lombardi

Port Veritas

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Tue, 26 Aug, 2025 at 08:00 pm

1.5 hours

Equality Community Center - ECC

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Tue, 26 Aug, 2025 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm (EDT)

Equality Community Center - ECC

15 Casco St, Portland, Maine, United States

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Open Mic Featuring Anthony Thomas Lombardi
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 EST, but we have the space until 10 pm EST.

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 TWF5YVdpbGxpYW1zMTYgfCBnbWFpbCAhIGNvbQ==.

Our feature this week is Anthony Thomas Lombardi coming to us in person!

Anthony Thomas Lombardi is a writer, educator, organizer, & romantic in revolt. He is the author of murmurations (YesYes Books, 2025) & the founder & director of Word is Bond, a community-centered benefit reading series partnered with Brooklyn Poets that raises funds for transnational relief efforts & mutual aid organizations. He has taught or continues to teach with Borough of Manhattan Community College, Paris College of Art, Brooklyn Poets, Florida State University,
Polyphony Lit’s apprenticeship programming, & community programming throughout New York City & currently serves as a poetry editor for Sundog Lit. His work has appeared in Best New Poets, Guernica, Missouri Review, Black Warrior Review, Nashville Review, Narrative Magazine, & elsewhere. He hails from Brooklyn where he lives with his cat, Dilla.


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Open Mic Featuring Anthony Thomas Lombardi, 26 August | Event in Portland | AllEvents
Open Mic Featuring Anthony Thomas Lombardi
Tue, 26 Aug, 2025 at 08:00 pm