BACK AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE!
Featuring K.R. Morrison and Puma Perl
Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro
Plus poetry open mic
21+
$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.
K.R. Morrison is a poet and drummer who during The Plague days, splits her time between the Bay Area and a place she calls Mermaid Town, in Southern California. She’s currently taking a writing sabbatical from teaching English and Creative Writing at Galileo High School in San Francisco, CA. Morrison’s chapbook Cauldrons was recently published by Paper Press Books. Apart from reading at curations in New Orleans, Los Angeles, and New York, Morrison’s poetry has been featured throughout several Bay Area readings. Her work has been published by Switchback, Quiet Lightning, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Gasconade Review, Escape Wheel (great weather for MEDIA, and most recently, The Lake County Bloom.
On Facebook: K.R. Morrison
On Instagram: @krmorrisonpoet
Puma Perl is a widely published poet and writer, as well as a performer, lyricist, and producer. She is the author of two chapbooks, Ruby True and Belinda and Her Friends, and three full-length poetry collections, knuckle tattoos, Retrograde (great weather for MEDIA), and Birthdays Before and After (Beyond Baroque.) She was the creator, curator, and producer of Puma’s Pandemonium, 2012-20, which brought together spoken word and rock and roll. Her band, Puma Perl and Friends, began in 2012 and has performed in venues throughout the metropolitan area and New York State.
Puma has featured as a solo artist throughout the United States and in Europe. She’s received two honorable mentions and one first-place award from the New York Press Association in recognition of her journalism and was the recipient of the 2016 Acker Award in the category of writing. During the pandemic, she contributed a weekly column, “Writing the Apocalypse,” to Chelsea Community News which included poetry, prose, journalism and photographic essays.
She lives and works on the Lower East Side and is currently at work on a collaborative book of poetry for Punk Hostage Press.
Photo by Lindi Gordon