Spoken Word Sundays now in Zoom every two weeks!

Featuring David Lawton and Jules Nyquist

Plus open mic

Hosted by George Wallace

** To watch directly on zoom and to read on open mic, you must register for this event via Eventbrite. The features will also be live-streamed to the great weather for MEDIA facebook page.

David Lawton is the author of Sharp Blue Stream (Three Rooms Press), and has work upcoming in the New York Quarterly anthology Without a Doubt: Poems Illustrating Faith and the Pittsburgh anthology from Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities. David is a graduate of the theatre program at Boston University, where he was also a Guest Artist in the graduate play writing classes taught by Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. For ten years he was a background vocalist in the New York underground band Leisure Class. At the band’s de facto headquarters in the Chelsea Hotel, he befriended Beat godfather Herbert Huncke and San Francisco poet Marty Matz, and was inspired by their embodiment of the written word. David also serves as an editor for great weather for MEDIA, and collaborates with poets Aimee Herman and Eric Alter in the poemusic collective Hydrogen Junkbox.

Jules Nyquist is the founder of Jules’ Poetry Playhouse in Placitas, NM, a place for poetry and play. She took her MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College, VT. Her latest book is Atomic Paradise, an exploration of growing up in the Cold War and living in the Land of Enchantment surrounded by nuclear secrets. Her other award-winning books are Zozobra Poems, 2019 NM/AZ Book Award winner in philosophy and Homesick, then 2018 NM/AZ Book Award winner in poetry. She has been interviewed in print, on line and on the radio by most recently, KUNM’s Women Folk (Albuquerque), KJZZ’s International Women’s HERstory (Tucson). She is co-editor of the Poets Speak series with the award-winning HERS anthology. Her website is www.julesnyquist.com