Anthony Febo

Moving through these movements, even just once a week, has been revitalizing. Feeling the way my body is waking up. Knowing that with time I’ll work towards running again. And with even more time, I’ll start training for a marathon. Shout out to the baby steps needed to take before I can look back and see how far I’ve come.

There is something about the world building and character creation possible through Dnd that really has me hooked. I put this location together from 7 different maps and it’s really setting the stage for our next encounter. I need to put more details together, but I’ll be offering some games to play, both in person and online this summer. So if you’re interested let me know.

On this week’s writing session, I pulled: Angel Card - “Birth” Hollow Woods Card - “Rider-less steed” A page from the Complete the Story book - “In Fairbanks, Alaska for a few days each summer, the sun doesn’t set until after midnight. It’s called the midnight sun and the locals had warned me. It would mess with my head. Maybe that’s why last night had turned out that way all I wanted was to…” Talked about something’s that came to mind, took some time to write them down, and wrote myself a poem. It’s cool to mix and match ideas, to pull inspiration from things that already exist, and listen in on the conversations that happen when they are placed in context with each other.

And on the last week of national poetry month, I got my gallbladder removed. At the start of 2023, I needed 23 staples to hold together the incision where they removed my spleen and the 15cm mass on it. I’m tired of losing parts of myself. I’m tried of cozening up to pain. Of being so tightly wound I can’t touch my toes without bending my back. But I believe in this body. I believe in strengthening, in lengthening, in practicing tenderness alongside sweating. So I will. And eff it, I’ll write about it too.

Boom. Story time. I’ve been playing DnD since 2020. I used to ask my poet friends, while looking around to make sure no one could hear me, “yo… you play dnd?” And the amount of folks that said “no, but I want to” was enough inspiration to learn how to run games. I’ve been GMing for a little under a year now and I’m absolutely loving it. I want to provide more opportunities for folks that want to play but are skeptical, that want to play but don’t have the time for a longer campaign. I see y’all. I’ve been y’all. Even if I’m new to running games, I’ve been facilitating for close to 20 years. So for now, I’ll be posting these abbreviated recaps of the home game I have going on. And maybe in the future, I’ll post a recap of a game we’ve played together 🎲

I want to be connected more. Engaged with community more. But leaving the house feels hard. Posting has always felt hard. Talking to a live audience has always felt easier than talking to my own reflection. So here’s my in between, I’ll go on live in the morning and edit that footage to a recap. I’m trying y’all. Ask me questions if you’re curious. Or watch from the shadows like I have for too long. Either way, love you.

Today our Lower and Upper Elementary classes enjoyed poetry sessions with Febo! Each age group received a slightly different presentation that helped them understand a little more about poetry along with engaging examples from his work. Upper El students were also given a few prompts to write their own mini poems during the session. As you can probably tell from the the students’ enthusiastic and attentive expressions, poetry with Febo was a big hit! Thank you @thisisfebo for spending your morning with us. ❤️

Did you know…April is National Poetry Month! And how lucky are we to have a Board President/parent/poet bringing engaging poetry experiences to our students this month! This morning our Wee Threes and Primary classes enjoyed an interactive and entertaining presentation with @thisisfebo . Thank you, Mr. Febo, for sharing your poetry with us. 🐈🐉❤️

Moved by Febo’s words? 💐🎻 The full Heart Strings concert experience is now available on demand — including the music, live poetry, and the atmosphere of this unforgettable night at Jordan Hall. Purchase a Digital Event Pass for 30 days of access and experience the entire event: sweeping music from the Criers, Febo’s spoken word woven throughout the program, and a Valentine’s night centered on love in all its forms. Want even more? A Virtual Subscription lets you catch up on our entire season — with video from our Jordan Hall concerts and audio from our St. John’s performances. 🔗 Purchase + learn more at afarcry.org/concerts-on-demand #spokenword #poetry #afarcry #goodmorning #jordanhall

We’re happy to introduce the second of our featured poets for April 10th, Anthony Febo! * Anthony Febo is a spoken-word poet, teaching artist, and new dad living in Riverside, RI. He uses vulnerability and joy to reflect, challenge, and celebrate his experience in Puerto Rican and Latine culture. He is a co-founder of the Lowell based poetry organization FreeVerse! and has toured the country individually and as half of Adobo-Fish-Sauce: a cooking and poetry collaboration. He has competed on numerous slam teams at the National Poetry Slam, and has coached even more youth teams at the international Brave New Voices and Massachusetts Louder Than A Bomb Poetry Festivals. Through Adobo-Fish-Sauce, he was a recipient of the MassART and City of Boston’s Radical Imagination for Racial Justice Grant, the New England Foundation for the Arts Public Art for Spatial Justice Grant, and The Boston Foundation’s Live Arts Boston Grant. They’ve been awarded residencies at the Boston Center for the Arts, the National Teen Arts Convening at the ICA Boston, and the Strange Foundation in New York's Catskill Mountains. A teaching artist for over 15 years, Febo was one of the teaching artist chosen to develop a week long professional development with Italian educators at the Venice Biennale teaching the pedagogy used in the ICA’s Wall Talk program. In 23'-24' school year, he was the first ever poet in residence at his old stomping grounds, Lowell High School. There, he performed and ran workshops with every single English class in every single grade, reaching approximately over 3,000 students. Febo was also one of the co-organizers for the Write Here | Write Now | Speak Loud! Teen Spoken Word Festival, which brought teens from across Massachusetts for a three-day festival to participate in workshops, open mics, and poetry slams. His first book of poems, "Becoming an Island" published by Game Over Books, is a practice in actively choosing joy in the face of what is trying to break you.

* UPDATE - we’re SOLD OUT ❤️ * Adobo-Fish-Sauce invites you to chop it up while we chop it up and prepare a Fire Cider together. 


Artist duo and best friends Anthony Febo and Ricky Orng bring their love for storytelling and food to this part poetry show, part workshop. They will guide guests through stories of health, healing, and history with humor and metaphor all while guests make our own tonic to take home. FireSideChatCider was inspired by their performance at Museum of Fine Arts @mfaboston and night cap radio @night_cap_cafe .
 This will be their first self-produced show in Rhode Island as well as the first event of a series of four to be held throughout 2026. Each will build on the last, culminating in a new Adobo-Fish-Sauce show to be presented at the end of the year, a show developed and inspired by the stories and themes collected from the audiences throughout the different shows. Sunday, March 22nd from 12-2:30pm hosted at Folding Chair at Trade. 
Spots are limited. RSVP required. Sliding Scale $25-35. Light bites and bevs. Folding Chair will be handing RSVPs. comment a 🔥 or🪑 for more deets or message @foldingchairpvd

Shout out to the foundation of our home, the light bringer, the joy giver, the soup maker, the cheerleading section, the mascot, the coach. I love you, Carlie. I’m sorry for the way that I am sometimes but I’m blessed that you love me anyways. excited to continue to celebrate you and this love in this family. I wouldn’t wanna do this without you and I’m glad I don’t have to. Happy Valentine’s Day.