Spoken Word Sundays temporarily back on Zoom

There is construction at the Parkside this fall so we will be back on Zoom on November 7 and November 14.

Please keep an eye on our website and Facebook for any further updates.

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

Featuring Carlos Manuel Rivera and Adela Sinclair

Hosted by David Lawton

Plus poetry open mic

Carlos Manuel Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet-performer, actor, Professor of Spanish at Bronx Community College, CUNY, and a researcher. He won the First Prize in the International Contest of the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, 2013 in the Essay category with the book So we don’t forget: Essays of interpretation of Puerto Rican marginal theater. Among his book's publications are: Magical Non-Senses, (Orbis Press, 2003); Popular Theater: The New Poor Theater of America by Pedro Santaliz. (Gestos, 2005); and Bululu. Parfum and Poison (Emerging Education, 2020). In addition, he recorded a CD of his Spoken Words ASI MI NATION (2010).

Adela Sinclair is a Romanian-American poet, translator, and teacher. Fluent in English, French, and Romanian, poetry is her primary, though not exclusive, medium. Her poetry explores themes of cultural identity, memory, loss, trauma, and desire. Her work appears on The Bridge, published by Brooklyn Poets, and Tupelo Press’ 30/30 Project. “On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Exploded”, Adela’s poem is published in the Winter Anthology Healing Felines and Femmes by Other Worldly Women Press. Her forthcoming chapbook entitled LA REVEDERE is being published by Finishing Line Press and will be released in 2022. Adela is currently working with an editor on her first full-length poetry collection, The Butcher’s Granddaughter, a lyrical memoir of her childhood in Romania. She has performed her poetry all over New York City including the Yale Club, 92nd Street Y, Bowery Poetry Club, Poet’s House, Brooklyn Poets, Books are Magic, KGB Bar, Saint Francis College, and Writer’s Voice at the JCC. She is a founding member and poetry editor of the emerging literary magazine, Unbound Brooklyn, and volunteers with Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn. Adela holds a BA in French Culture and Civilization from SUNY Albany, with additional coursework at the Sorbonne University of Paris, an MA in Education from Hunter College (NYC), and an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from St. Francis College (Brooklyn).