Phog Lounge to relocate in 2025 [Video]

For more than a decade, Phog Lounge has been the backdrop for some of this city’s most creative poets, but with Phog planning a big move in 2025, the future of its poetry nights is taking a new turn.

For five months now, T.J. Bondy has been gracing the stage, using his most creative and vulnerable words.

“In the world of social media and feeling disconnected from everyone, it’s cool to be sharing real feelings with people in a room together,” shared T.J.

T.J. Bondy outside of Phog Lounge, Dec. 20, 2024 (Sanjay Maru/CTV News Windsor)

Bondy is a regular at TOAST Open Mic Poetry, which provides monthly opportunities for poets of all skill levels to come together and share their work in a supportive space.

Phog Lounge has been the group’s meeting spot for the past 11 years.

But with the music venue leaving downtown and moving to Erie …