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May26Sun
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great weather presents spoken word sundays @ The Parkside Lounge4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Featuring Aimee Herman and Terri Muuss
Hosted by George Wallace
Aimee Herman is on a strict diet of peanut butter, coffee, and farmer’s markets. Sometimes she also eats meat. Read her work in Wilde Magazine, THRUSH Poetry Journal, and Lavender Review. Or binge on her book of poems, to go without blinking (BlazeVOX books, 2012). Website
Terri Muuss is author of Over Exposed and former host of the Manhattan poetry series Poetry at the Pulse. Her one-woman show, Anatomy of a Doll, was named “Best Theatre: Critics’ Pick of the Week” by The Daily News and has been performed throughout the United States and Canada since 1998. As a motivational speaker, life coach and social worker, Muuss specializes in the use of the arts as a healing mechanism for trauma . Website.
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“The Parkside Lounge on East Houston is the coolest new venue in town for poetry readings. Sundays at 4pm.” – Live Mag!
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Jun2Sun
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great weather presents spoken word sundays @ The Parkside Lounge4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Featuring Simone Davis & John W. Snyder
Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro
Simone Davis is a writer and performer, homegrown on the California poetry scene. As the captain of the UC Davis Slam Poetry Team for three years, she placed fifth at CUPSI twice, earning a spot on final stage with a collaborative piece entitled “Hip Hop Scotch.” As founder of the “SickSpits Poetry Collective”, Simone hosted several rowdy open mics in Davis, CA that now packs over 300 monthly attendees. As a member of the 2006 Sacramento Slam Poetry Team, Simone has shared the stage with artists such as Amir Sulaiman, Talam Acey, Marc Bamukti Joseph, Zion I, Immortal Technique and Quincy Troupe. As a reborn resident of New York City, Simone is a 2013 Louder Arts and Poetry Idol Finalist. She takes pride in holding down a corporate job by day and a pen at night.
John W. Snyder is a Staten Island poet. Currently an undergraduate at Hunter College, he spends his free time wearing fangs and being the coolest person ever. His work can be found in Ardent! Magazine and in the forthcoming great weather for MEDIA anthology, The Understanding between Foxes and Light.
Plus open mic.
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Jun9Sun
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great weather presents spoken word sundays @ The Parkside Lounge4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Featuring Janet Hamill and band
Hosted by George Wallace
Janet Hamill is a former thirty-year resident of NYC. She is the author of five books of poetry and short fiction, as well as two CDs of spoken word and music. A sixth book, Tales from the Eternal Café, is forthcoming from Three Rooms Press. Her work has been nominated for the William Carlos Williams Prize and the Pushcart Prize. Janet is presently enrolled as an MFA candidate in Poetry at New England College in Henniker, NH. Find her poetry in the great weather for MEDIA anthology It’s Animal but Merciful and the forthcoming The Understanding between Foxes and Light.
Greg Feller (Drummer/percussionist). Born and raised in the Hudson Valley. Currently plays drums inthe Armedalite Rifles, the Offshoots, the Glenn Mercer Band, and Lost Ceilings with Janet Hamill.
Mark McNutt (guitar).Born in Nashville, TN. Has been living, performing and recording in the Hudson Valley area since 1990. In New York he is most known for his guitar work for Elissa Jones (from the Wilson Pickett band) as well as the bands Mighty Girl, Offshoots, and Union Kats. In Tennessee he is best known for his recording work with poet/singer-songwriter Doc Watts. He has been working with poet Janet Hamill for over a year now.
Bob Torsello (bassist). Besides his decade-long work with Janet Hamill, Bob is a founding member of the critically-acclaimed garage-pop band Shrubs. He is a member of Mighty Girl, Offshoots and the Glenn Mercer Band. Bob also manages The Feelies who have influenced such bands as R.E.M, Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo.
Plus open mic
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Jun16Sun
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great weather presents spoken word sundays @ The Parkside Lounge4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Featuring Frank Reardon and Chocolate Waters
Frank Reardon was born in Boston, Massachusetts and spent his first 28 years living there. Since then, he has lived all over the country, and currently lives in the Badlands of North Dakota, still looking for a way to get out. His first book, Interstate Chokehold, was published by NeoPoiesis Press in 2009, his second Nirvana Haymaker was published by NeoPoiesis Press in 2012. Frank is in the process of completing a third poetry collection Blood Music for Punk Hostage Press.
Chocolate Waters has been writing and publishing poetry for over four decades. During the second wave of feminism she was one of the first openly lesbian poets to publish. Her first three collections sold nearly 10,000 copies and are considered classics of the early women’s movement. Waters’ latest venture, the woman who wouldn’t shake hands, was released by Poets Wear Prada (Hoboken, NJ) in Nov. 2011.
Plus open mic
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Jun23Sun
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great weather presents spoken word sundays @ The Parkside Lounge4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Featuring Phil Asaph and Jeanann Verlee
Hosted by Russ Green
Raymond Philip Asaph—known as “Philip” by friends and family—writes both poetry and fiction. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Mississippi Review, The Long Island Quarterly and elsewhere. His most recent fiction, “Sister of the Bees,” is now on newsstands in the May 2013 issue of Glimmer Train. Phil took his master’s degree from NYU and studied literature and writing at Eckerd College, City College, Stony Brook and Bucknell University, where he won the Stadler Fellowship for Younger Poets. He taught poetry, fiction and philosophy for many years at The Long Island High School for the Arts and has also taught literature and writing at Dowling College, Suffolk Community College and NYU. He’s a longtime student and teacher of A Course in Miracles and the Enneagram. Phil lives on the north shore of Long Island and is finishing work on a novel about America through the eyes of a furniture mover, called Brothers of the Ox.Jeanann Verlee is an author, performance poet, editor, and former punk rocker. She is author of Racing Hummingbirds (Write Bloody Publishing), which earned the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in Poetry. Verlee is also winner of the Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry. Her work appears in a number of journals, including The New York Quarterly, Rattle, failbetter, and kill author, among others. She is a poetry editor for Union Station Magazine and director of Urbana Poetry Slam. Verlee holds a number of local and national slam titles and has represented New York City nine times under both NYC-Urbana and NYC-louderARTS at the National Poetry Slam, Individual World Poetry Slam, and Women of the World Poetry Slam. She believes in you. Learn more at jeanannverlee.com
Plus open mic
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Jun30Sun
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great weather presents spoken word sundays @ The Parkside Lounge4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Featuring Michelle Whittaker
Hosted by David Lawton
Michelle Whittaker is a pianist and teacher. Her poems have recently appeared in The New Yorker, The Southampton Review, Drunken Boat, Xanadu, Lemon Hound, and Long Island Quarterly. She received the 2009 Jody Donohue Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize special mention, and is a Cave Canem fellow. Find her in the great weather for MEDIA anthology, The Understanding between Foxes and Light
Plus open mic
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Jul7Sun
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great weather presents spoken word sundays @ The Parkside Lounge4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Featuring the Jersey City Slam Team & Alice Pero
Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro
Alice Pero’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in many magazines and anthologies including Nimrod, National Poetry Review, River Oak Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The Distillery, The Griffin, and G.W. Review. Her book of poetry, Thawed Stars, was praised by Kenneth Koch as having “clarity and surprises.” She is a teacher of poetry and a member of California Poets in the Schools. An accomplished flutist and former dancer, Alice Pero is also the founder of Moonday, which occurs monthly at Village Books in Pacific Palisades and Moonday East in La Canada, CA.Plus open mic
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Jul14Sun
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great weather presents spoken word sundays @ The Parkside Lounge4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Featuring Ptr Kozlowski and Efrayim Levenson, and spotlight feature Jerred Metz
Hosted by David Lawton
Ptr Kozlowski has been a taxi driver, a deliveryman, a poet and a printer, singer-songwriter and guitarist. He’s been published in Hobo Jungle, Stained Sheets, and Curare, and on Rant Records; and performed at CBGB’s, Danceteria, Bowery Poetry Club, ABC No Rio, Cornelia Street Cafe, Yippie Museum Cafe and Revival Bar, among others.
Efrayim Levenson is a former Executive Director of Niagara Erie Writers. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online publications, among them River Poets Journal, Parkside Poets Collection, What Happens Next?, ArtVoice, and Poetica. Two chapbook collections have been published: For My Relations (Poetrymanz, 2000) and Dances With Tears (Poets Wear Prada, 2007). Levenson’s collaborations with such musicians as Clif Jackson (Secret Orchestra), Dave Schmeidler (Skyrats), and Rey Scott (Sun Ra Arkestra) led to his interest in poetic interpretation of instrumental music. Funhouse, his latest endeavor, will be published soon by Poets Wear Prada.Jerred Metz has had five chapbooks of poetry published and three books of nonfiction. His latest book is The Last Eleven Days of Earl Durand (High Plains Press). He teaches writing at Strayer University in Columbia, South Carolina.
Plus open mic
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Jul21Sun
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great weather presents spoken word sundays @ The Parkside Lounge4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Featuring Andrew Kaufman and Matt Pasca
Hosted by George Wallace
Andrew Kaufman’s Cinnamon Bay Sonnets won the Center for Book Arts chapbook competition, and was followed by Earth’s Ends, winner of the Pearl Poetry Award. His next two books, Both Sides of the Niger and The Cinnamon Bay Poems, are due out. respectively, from Spuyten Duyvil Press and Rain Mountain Press, in 2013 and 2014. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts award, and is currently completing a book of poems based on his encounters in Rwanda with genocide survivors and perpertrators.
An award-winning teacher, Matt Pasca has also made his mark as a writer to watch. He is the author of A Thousand Doors (JB Stillwater, 2011) and his work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Paterson Literary Review, Georgetown Review, and Pedestal Magazine. Matt also serves as a reviewer and workshop coordinator for the Long Island Authors Group, and offers writing workshops at conferences and universities. website
Plus open mic
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Jul27Sat
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New York City Poetry Festival 2013 @ The New York City Poetry Festival11:00 am – 6:00 pm
great weather for MEDIA is delighted to be part of the 2013 New York City Poetry Festival on Govenors Island.
Come and say hello to us at our book table. We shall also be performing at 1:50 pm, Saturday July 27th, on the Chumley’s stage. Readers Ngoma, Kofi Fosu Forson, and Thomas Fucaloro.
Organized by The Poetry Society of New York
The 3rd Annual New York City Poetry Festival will be held on Governors Island’s Colonel’s Row on July 27th and 28th 2013, 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. The Poetry Society of New York will once again invite New Yorkers to come together for this two day festival to celebrate NYC’s vibrant poetry community. The event will include over 50 poetry organizations and 200 poets on its three stages; a Vendor’s Village where local booksellers, artists and craftmakers will sell their wares; a boozy area sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery; healthy and delicious food options; poetry-inspired installation art throughout, and, of course, the legendary Children’s Festival at NYCPF!
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