As COVID transmission rates in NYC remain high, we have decided to temporarily move our Parkside Lounge show to Zoom. Please register via Eventbrite by 3:30 pm on the day of the event. The host will take open mic signups.

Featuring Dorothy Friedman August and Oliver James Lomax

Plus poetry open mic

Hosted by George Wallace

Dorothy Friedman August is a widely published award winning poet who has won two New York Foundation of the Arts fellowship and won an Acker Award in Poetry for writing and activism. A downtown New York activist, writer and editor for over forty years, she's published three books of poetry and in numerous periodicals and anthologies, and was poetry editor of DOWNTOWN Magazine from 1984-1996, during the heyday of the East Village zeitgeist

Oliver James Lomax was born in Little Lever, Bolton, England in 1983. He has published four collections of poetry including The Dandelion Clock and God Missed The Last Bus And Walked Home. Oliver has written poetry for film and television, his poetry is now taught in schools, and he is passionate at connecting with young people through poetry. In 2020 he released his first spoken word single “Don’t Laugh At My Astro Turf Diane”, hailed by BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson as “An unholy hybrid of John Cooper Clarke and Mark E. Smith.”