Spoken Word Sundays now in Zoom every two weeks!

Featuring Janlori Goldman and Christopher J. Greggs

Plus open mic

Hosted by David Lawton

**To watch directly on zoom and to read on open mic, you must register (from Aug 5) via Eventbrite and you will be sent the link. This event will also be live-streamed to the great weather for MEDIA facebook page.

Christopher J. Greggs is a poet, designer, and recording artist living in New York, NY. He is a Cave Canem, Tin House, Callaloo, and Watering Hole fellow and was the recipient of the Goodman Poetry prize from the City College of New York. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as TriQuarterly, Winter Tangerine, Texas Review, and Before Passing (great weather for MEDIA), among others. He earned his MFA in Poetry from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. His debut EP Change Mah Name is streaming on all platforms. @mynameisgreggs @nameyourworld. His interview with actor / director Sonja Sohn can be found in the great weather for MEDIA anthology Suitcase of Chrysanthemums.

Janlori Goldman’s first full-length book,  Bread from a Stranger’s Oven, was chosen by Laure-Anne Bosselaar for the 2016 White Pine Press Poetry Prize. In 2013, Toadlily Press published her chapbook, Akhmatova’s Egg. Gerald Stern chose her poem “At the Cubbyhole Bar” for the first Raynes Prize. Janlori co-founded The Wide Shore: A Journal of Global Women’s Poetry,and worked with Paris Press on the first joint publication of Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms, written by Woolf’s mother, Julia Stephen.  She writes book reviews and essays, most recently on the work of the filmmaker Barbara Hammer and poet Alicia Ostriker. Janlori teaches human rights, works at the Center for Justice, and volunteers as a writing mentor for people with cancer. She received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.  Janlori’s poetry, essays, and selected readings can be found at http://www.hugeshoes.org