Featuring Barbara Ann Branca and Thaddeus Rutkowski

Hosted by George Wallace

Plus open mic

21+

$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.

Brooklyn-born BARBARA ANN BRANCA has featured at Cornelia Street Café, Bowery Poetry Club, Parkside Lounge, and Greenwich Village Bistro in Manhattan; in Brooklyn libraries and cafes, and on Long Island at the Huntington Poetry Barn and the Walt Whitman Birthplace. Her work appears in Polarity eMagazine, Paumanok II (LI anthology), Grabbing the Apple (anthology), and the 25th Anniversary edition of Long Island Quarterly. Her debut chapbook, Flash Flood, is creative nonfiction based on her lifelong passions for music, heritage, and the environment.

THADDEUS RUTKOWSKI is the author of six books, most recently Border Crossings, a poetry collection. His novel Haywire won the Asian American Writers Workshop’s Members Choice Award, and Guess and Check won the Electronic Literature bronze award for multicultural fiction. He received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.