Zoom!

As COVID transmission rates in NYC are currently high, we have decided to temporarily move our January 2nd ,9th , 16th , and 23rd Parkside Lounge shows to Zoom.

Please register via Eventbrite by 3:30 pm on the day of the event. The host will take open mic signups.

The reading will also be livestreamed to the great weather for MEDIA facebook page.

Please keep checking our website and Facebook page for updates on future readings. If we can’t be at the Parkside at any time, we will be on Zoom.

Featuring Kofi Fosu Forson and Aimee Herman

Plus poetry open mic

Hosted by David Lawton

Kofi Fosu Forson has written and directed plays, Cushion Pill and Fifth of Floyd among others, for Riant Theater. His play Alligator Pass was nominated for the Arnold Weissberger Award. His collaborations include Gender, Space, Art and Architecture, a video project in Liverpool, England and Dismember the Night, thread poetry and photography project at Tribes Gallery, New York City. Among his published works are short stories for Three Rooms Press’ NYC 1 and NYC 2 and poetry in Maintenant 10, great weather for MEDIA’s The Understanding Between Foxes and Light, Anti-Heroin Chic, Full of Crow Press, and Flapperhouse. His poetry manuscript Ghost of Brother Blackburn and Other Poems was shortlisted by Broken Sleep Press, United Kingdom.

Aimee Herman lives beside the mountains, writing poetry, playing ukulele and searching for the peace buried deep within. They are the author of two books of poetry (including great weather's meant to wake up feeling) and the novel, Everything Grows.