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Spoken Word Sundays NYC

  • The Parkside Lounge 317 East Houston Street New York (map)
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Featuring Patricia Leonard and Moe Seager

Hosted by David Lawton

Plus open mic

21+

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

Patricia Leonard is a 31 year old writer born and raised in New York. She has her BA in English linguistics and creative writing from CUNY York College. She is currently undergoing her MFA in creative writing at CUNY City College. Her work has been featured in Three Rooms Press’ yearly anthology, Maintenant 10, Maintenant 11, Maintenant 12, Maintenant 13. Also in The Voices project, Broke Bohemian and Hamilton Stone. She is featured in Culture Cult and Bards against Hunger anthologies. She was last published online with Fleas on the Dog in 2019. Her poetic performances include The Corniela Street Cafe, (le) Poisson Rouge, Women’s Warrior, and the Walt Whitman 200th anniversary convention. She was the recipient for a scholarship to attend the 2019 Slice Literary Conference. She is a poet and creative non fiction writer who always leaves her readers wanting more. Her style is captivating; permanently staining you with vivid memories you’ll never forget.

Moe Seager is a poet and jazz & blues vocalist who sings his poems on stages in Paris, New York and elsewhere and has recorded 2 jazz-poetry CDs. Seager founded and hosts Angora Poetz Pariz series, Angora Music Paris - World Café, and 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Paris. He has 6 collections of poetry and currently publishes with Onslaught Press, Oxford, U.K. Other poetry collections are issued from the French Ministry of Culture - Dream Bearers, 1990; One World, Cairo Press (in Arabic translation), 2004; We Want Everything (in French translation), les Temps des Cirises, Paris, 1994;  Perhaps, La Maison de la Poesie, Grenoble, France, 2006; Fishermen and Pool Sharks, Busking Editions, London, 1992. Additionally Seager won a Golden Quill Award (USA) for investigative journalism in 1989, and received an International Human Rights award from the Zepp foundation in 1990. He teaches writing in Paris.

Earlier Event: January 7
Backroom Broadsides
Later Event: January 19
Spoken Word Sundays NYC