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 Lori Desrosiers and Linda Lerner

Plus poetry open mic

Hosted by George Wallace

21+

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

Lori Desrosiers’ poetry books are The Philosopher’s Daughter, Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak, and the most recent, Keeping Planes in the Air, all from Salmon Poetry (Ireland). Two chapbooks, Inner Sky and Typing with e.e. cummings, are from Glass Lyre Press. She is also the publisher of two journals, Naugatuck River Review, a journal of narrative poetry, and Wordpeace.co, an online journal dedicated to peace and social justice.

Linda Lerner is the author of 19 collections including, most recently, When Death is a Red Balloon (Lummox Press, 2019.) Her poems have recently appeared in Maintenant, Paterson Literary Review, Gargoyle, Free State Review, and one Art among others. Her next collection, Taking The F Train, is scheduled for publication in Fall 2021, from NYQ Books.