Spoken Word Sundays now in Zoom every two weeks!

Featuring Ama Birch and Wanda Phipps

Plus open mic

Hosted by David Lawton

** To watch directly on zoom and to read on open mic, you must register for this event via Eventbrite. Registration ends 3:30 pm on the day of the event. This event will also be live-streamed to the great weather for MEDIA facebook page.

Ama Birch has been published by Autonomedia, A Gathering of the Tribes, Vail/Vale, Les Figues Press, Vitrine, Insert Blanc Press, Apricity Press, Live Mag!, and the Brooklyn Rail. She has three books available: Faces in the Clouds, a chapbook of poetry, Sonnet Boom!, a collection of 88 contemporary Shakespearean Sonnets, and Ferguson Interview Project, a book of twenty interviews about Mike Brown's death. Check out her video game on android: Space Quake by Ama Birch. She has a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at New Paltz and a Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts.

Wanda Phipps, author of Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems, has been published over 100 times in English, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Galician, and Bangla; created theatrical productions with Yara Arts Group presented in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, and NYC; curated several reading series and written about the arts for Time Out New York and Paper Magazine. Her website is mindhoney.com and she has a new book of poetry forthcoming from Autonomedia.