great weather for MEDIA is delighted to present eight poets for New Jersey’s High Mountain Meadow Poetry Series. This is a Zoom event and our features will be followed by an open mic. If you wish to sign up to watch or take part, please contact us for details.
All eight poets can be found in our most recent anthologies, Escape Wheel and Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea.
Hosted by series curator Denise Laneve.
Featured readers:
Vanessa Chica is a NYC educator and poet who believes there is strength in vulnerability. Find Vanessa’s work in the great weather for MEDIA anthology Escape Wheel.
Cathyann Cusimano is a beat poet of illumination. She shines a light on whatever catches her attention, puts the images in a blender and hits the gas. Cathyann enjoys creating works of art out of a multitude of media and making an adventure out of spontaneous experiences.
M. A. Dennis is an overweight starving artist who lives across the street from two restaurants and a laundromat. His poetry has been published in the New York Times' "New York City Haiku" and great weather for MEDIA's Escape Wheel anthology, among others.
SaraEve Fermin is a poet, author, and advocate. The author of Trauma Carnival, she is working on her forthcoming book of poems about mental health and the Netflix series Bojack Horseman.
Meghan Grupposo is co-founder of the monthly NYC reading series, NeuroNautic Institute Presents. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her work can be found in Polarity, Maintenant 14, and Escape Wheel.
Jerry T. Johnson is a poet and spoken word artist whose poetry has appeared in a variety of literary publications worldwide. Jerry also features at many spoken word and poetry venues in the New York City and Southern Connecticut areas. Jerry lives with his wife Raye in Danbury, Connecticut.
Zev Torres’ work has appeared in several great weather for MEDIA anthologies, as well as Maintenant 6 and 12, Breadcrumbs, and other publications. Zev hosts Make Music New York's annual Spoken Word Extravaganza, and founded the Skewered Syntax Poetry Crawls.
John J. Trause, the Director of Oradell Public Library, is the author of six books of poetry, including Exercises in High Treason (great weather for MEDIA, 2016). His translations, poetry, prose, scholarship, and visual work appear internationally in many publications, including three great weather for MEDIA anthologies, and he is a founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, N. J., and the former host and curator of its monthly reading series.