As COVID transmission rates in NYC are currently high and the Parkside Lounge back room is under renovation, we have decided to temporarily move our live series 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 Bob Heman and Vijay Ramanathan

Plus poetry open mic

Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro

Bob Heman lives in Brooklyn where he constructs collages and writes mostly prose poems. His words have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Italian and Hungarian. He has been published on every continent except Antarctica. His most recent books include The House of Grand Farewells (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2019), The Number 5 Is Always Suspect [collaborations with Cindy Hochman] (Presa Press, 2019), and Cone Transformed (Poets Wear Prada, 2021). His e-books Demographics, or, The Hats They Are Allowed to Wear (2009), and How It All Began (2007), are available as free downloads from Quale Press. In the late 1970s, he was an artist-in-residence at The Brooklyn Museum.

Vijay Ramanathan is the head librarian at Kristine Mann Library. He is an MLS graduate of St. John's University and is currently studying at Naropa University to receive his Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. He is also a poet with a new poetry collection Breakdown Dancer released by Poets of Queens Press and he hosts a LIVE talk show streaming on Radio Free Brooklyn every Sunday at 11 AM called The Truth to Power Show.