Spoken Word Sundays now in Zoom every two weeks!

Featuring Begonya Plaza and William Taylor Jr.

Plus open mic

Hosted by David Lawton

** 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.

Begonya Plaza is an American actress of stage, film, and television, singer, writer, and visual artist. She starred in a Hollywood independent film at age nine. During High School she was a reporter and anchor for the Emmy award winning news program, Student News. Begonya has been directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clint Eastwood, Michael Mann, Oliver Stone, Amy Jones, and Tim Hunter, among others. She did Avant Garde theater at East Village's art space, Gas Station (2B), in New York City, and worked with Rachel Rosenthal in Los Angeles. Begonya penned a three-character full-length play, Teresa’s Ecstasy, that premiered Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City, acting with Shawn Elliott, and Linda Larkin. She made a documentary about her father's childhood experiences during the bombing of Gernika in Euskadi. Among her other short films is Souvenir Views that premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, aired on IFC, and traveled the globe. Begonya is currently writing a novel based on her screenplay about an adventure with Salvador and Gala Dalí, and working on a book of poems.
www.begonyaplaza.com

William Taylor Jr. lives and writes in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, and a volume of fiction. His work has been published widely in journals across the globe, including Rattle, The New York Quarterly, The Chiron Review, and the great weather for MEDIA anthology Suitcase of Chrysanthemums. He is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and was a recipient of a 2013 Kathy Acker Award. Pretty Things to Say, (Six Ft. Swells Press, 2020) is his latest collection of poetry.