I know how hard it is to be a writer. I know how hard it is to perform what you write on stage to people while they judge your work. I also know how hard it is to organize the event(not from doing it but from watching Nate).

Port Veritas formed to create a place where community could come together to help grow its own artistic drive. If anyone thinks we’ve failed at it then they should tell us, one on one. That is not what happens.

People come to the North Star on Tuesday nights and feel left out because they dont know us yet. They get onstage raw and unpolished so people don’t celebrate them enough, then they see how much we celebrate each other when we achieve and they feel isolated.

Honestly your supposed to feel isolated. There is a preexisting social structure wherever you go and you have to make your room within it. Here you make it by blowing us away. If you never do then people will only marginally attend you.
It would be stupid of me to ask these kinds of people to create their own readings, they won’t. I would give these people one word of wisdom, don’t you ever name check a poet on stage. Your a coward if you do. You can write a piece that is directed at someone without any names and they will know but when you drop peoples names in a negative way you are abusing the situation and spitting in the face of what everybody there hopes accomplish.
If people need it to be the fault of the venue and Port Veritas that is fine but I won’t forget and if you name check Wil or Nate you just name checked me. I help them keep this going and setting them back sets me back frustrating them frustrates me. Know that what you say has consequences beyond food for your ego.