Event Highlights:

🎙️ Open Mic Experience: Step up to the mic or enjoy powerful poetry, personal reflections, and moving stories from local voices.

✨ An intimate featured reading from Norm Novitsky's poetry collection What's On My Mind, paired with the illustrated artwork created to accompany his verse

🖼️ Full access to explore Imagine Museum's contemporary glass art galleries before and after the reading - your ticket includes museum admission

☕ Light refreshments served as you settle in for the evening

🎤 An open, welcoming atmosphere with discussion of themes, inspiration, and the writing process

Event Details:

📅 Date: Thursday, August 20th, 2026

🕐 Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm

📍 Location: Imagine Museum, 1901 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL 33713

🎟️ Tickets: $5

🅿️ Free on-site parking available (88+ spaces)

The Experience:

There's something rare about hearing a poet read their own work in a room built for wonder. For one evening, Imagine Museum's galleries become the backdrop for Norm Novitsky's words — a poet, filmmaker, and musician whose writing draws on love, family, and the people who move the world forward. His collection What's on my Mind pairs each poem with original illustrations by artist Emily Walet, created to accompany the verse. Come for the poetry; stay for the art that surrounds it.