Spoken Word Sundays is back at New York City’s Parkside Lounge!

** EVERYONE MUST PROVIDE PROOF OF FULL 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 Karen Hildebrand and Francine Witte

Plus poetry open mic

Hosted by George Wallace

21+

$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.

Karen Hildebrand is the author of Crossing Pleasure Avenue (Indolent Books, 2018). Her poetry has appeared in many journals—most recently in Maintenant: a journal of contemporary dada art and writing, Scoundrel Time, Southern Florida Poetry Journal and Welcome to the Resistance—and was adapted for a play produced in NYC (2013). She lives in Brooklyn where she's working on a new manuscript and follows the NYC dance scene.

Francine Witte’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Mid-American Review, Passages North, and many others. Her books include Dressed All Wrong for This (Blue Light Press,) The Way of the Wind (AdHoc fiction,) and (The Theory of Flesh.) She is flash fiction editor for FLASH BOULEVARD and South Florida Poetry Journal, as well as a poetry reader for Pidgeonholes. Her latest chapbook, The Cake, The Smoke, The Moon (flash fiction) has just been published by ELJ Editions. She lives in NYC.
(Author photo: Mark Strodl)