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 Alexandra van de Kamp and Joanne Pagano Weber 

Plus poetry open mic

Hosted by George Wallace

Alexandra van de Kamp is the Executive Director for Gemini Ink, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center (www.geminiink.org). Her most recent books of poems are Kiss/Hierarchy (Rain Mountain Press 2016) and The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (CW Books 2010). Her third book, Ricochet Script, is forthcoming from Next Page Press in April 2022. She has also published several chapbooks, including A Liquid Bird Inside the Night (Red Glass Books 2015) and Dear Jean Seberg (2011), which won the 2010 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have been published in journals nationwide, such as The Cincinnati Review, The Texas Observer, Denver Quarterly, Great Weather for MEDIA, and Sweet: A Literary Confection.

Joanne Pagano Weber is an artist, writer, and designer. She created many sets for “The Alternative” New Year’s reading in New York. She and her husband, Bruce Weber, continue this tradition upstate, where they now live. Joanne is a member of Shout Out Saugerties, whose mission is to build community through the arts. She teaches both Visual Art and Art History at Greenwich House in New York City.