great weather for MEDIA is thrilled to be invited for a feature set at the Backroom Broadsides reading series in Jersey City.

Featuring Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea contributors SaraEve Fermin, Matthew Hupert, and John J. Trause.

Sign up for the open mic at 7:30 pm.

SaraEve Fermin is a performance poet and epilepsy advocate from northeast New Jersey. She has performed for both local and national events, including the Women of the World Poetry Slam, and the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Los Angeles Care and Cure Benefit to End Epilepsy in Children. Her work can be found in GERM Magazine, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, and The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker (great weather for MEDIA). She is the author of You Must Be This Tall to Ride (Swimming with Elephants Publishing) and View From the Top of the Ferris Wheel (Clare Songbirds Publishing House). Her latest collection Trauma Carnival (Swimming with Elephants Publishing) was published in 2019. She believes in the power of foxes and self-publishing.

Matthew Hupert is a writer and multi-media artist. He is the founder of the NeuroNautic Institute and its associated poetry workshop and of NeuroNautic Press which just released his latest collection, Secular Pantheism. He is the author of Ism is a Retrovirus (Three Rooms Press) and several chapbooks, and his writing has appeared in numerous publications including Midstream Magazine, Maintenant, and Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets. When not writing, Matthew can be found cooking for his family.

John J. Trause, the Director of Oradell Public Library, New Jersey, is the author of Why Sing? (Sensitive Skin Press, 2017), This: For Your Eyes and Ears (Dos Madres Press, 2016), and Exercises in High Treason (great weather for MEDIA, 2016). His translations, poetry, and visual work appear internationally in journals and anthologies, including The Antioch Review, Crossings, Maintenant, Offerta Speciale, and Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books). He has 120 turtlenecks in every shade thanks to Uniqlo and Dalton’s.