Anthony Febo

Anthony Febo is a spoken-word poet, teaching artist, and new dad living in East Providence, RI.  He uses vulnerability and joy to reflect, challenge, and celebrate his experience in Puerto Rican and Latinx 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.  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 artists 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. 

As of October 2024.