Spoken Word Sundays is back at New York City’s Parkside Lounge!
**Everyone must provide proof of vaccination to enter the venue.
As you know, things change fast. Please keep checking our website and Facebook page for updates. There is also construction planned for the Parkside this fall. If we can’t be at the Parkside during this time, we will return to Zoom.
Featuring Robert Gibbons and Prince A. McNally
Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro
Plus poetry open mic
21+
$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.
Robert Anthony Gibbons, a native Floridian, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry community at the Cornelia Street Cafe, the Green Pavilion, Nomad's Choir, Brownstone Poets, Hydrogen JukeBox, Saturn Series, and Phoenix among other venues. He is an Obsidian Fellow (2020), a Cave Canem Fellow (2019-2021) and has received residencies from the Norman Mailer Foundation (2017) and the DISQUIET International Literary Program (2018). In 2018 he completed his MFA at City College.
Robert has been published in over thirty literary magazines and in several notable anthologies. Recent publication credits include Killens Review, Tribes, Involuntary Magazine, Peregrine, Expound, Promethean, Turtle Island Quarterly, Killer Whale, and Suisun Valley Review, and the Bronx Memoir Project: Vol. 2 published by the Bronx Council of the Arts. His first collection, Close to the Tree, was published by Three Rooms Press (2012). His other publications are the chapbook Flight (Poets Wear Prada, 2019), You Almost Home, boy (Harlequin Creatures, 2019) with Brooklyn based artist, Amy Williams, and Some Little Words (440 Gallery, Brooklyn, 2021). He has received funding from the Puffin Foundation (2021), United States Artists(2020), and most recently the New York Foundation for the Arts.(2021). Robert’s poetry has also appeared in great weather for MEDIA anthologies including Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea.
Prince A. McNally is a Brooklyn born poet/ philosopher, editor, and filmmaker whose poems have
been widely published in the U.S. and abroad, in such publications as TUCK Magazine, Dissident Voice, Blue Mountain Review, and Jerry Jazz Musician, just to name a few. He is a Poets & Writers grant recipient and has received several Best of The Net nominations. His debut collection of poems entitled SHE will be published by Poets Wear Prada in the Spring of 2022. He is also editing an African American Anthology entitled The BLACK PROJECT scheduled for release in the Fall of 2022 also published through Poets Wear Prada.