Spoken Word Sundays now in Zoom every two weeks!

Featuring Rick Mullin and Nicca Ray

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.

Rick Mullin’s poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including American Arts Quarterly, The New Criterion, The Dark Horse, Epiphany, and the great weather for MEDIA anthology Suitcase of Chrysanthemums. His epic poem, Huncke, has just been released in a tenth anniversary second edition by Exot Books. His most recent collection, Lullaby and Wheel, was published in 2019 by Kelsay Books.

Nicca Ray is the author of Ray by Ray: A Daughter’s Take on the Legend of Nicholas Ray (Three Rooms Press, 2020). It has been called “harrowing, beautifully written and near-impossible to put down” by Shelf Awareness and “an intimate first-hand grasp on the benefits and hindrances of drugs and alcohol, along with front-row access to the Hollywood scene” by Please Kill Me.

Her first poetry collection, Back Seat Baby, was recently published by Poison Fang Press, the imprint founded by Chris D. (The Flesh Eaters, The Divine Horsemen). In the forward, Ann Magnusun writes, “Plumbing the depths of uncertainty and loneliness, Ray finds gold in the collective swamplands of our souls.” The poet, Charles Plymell, calls Back Seat Baby “the High Noon of poetry.”

She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2020 Acker Award recipient.