We are thrilled to welcome Fern Metcalf to our Wednesday series of ten-minute live Zoom readings.

7:30 - 7:40 pm EST

Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro

The reading will be streamed live to our facebook page and you may also register to watch directly on Zoom. Registration for Zoom viewing is available through Eventbrite. Please register before 7:15 pm on the day of the event.

Fern Metcalf is a poet and photographer. Fern she participated as a panel member and honoree for “Women in the Arts” by the Staten Island Women’s Political Caucus. She has had two solo photography exhibitions, “Cuba! …and its magic” at the Spotlight Gallery, Wagner College Campus and most recently, “We The People: Black Indians in America” at Snug Harbor Newhouse Center. Reviews of her work has been featured in Huffington Post and the Staten Island Advance. She has participated in writing workshops in NYC, namely Cave Canem and Poets House.  Her writing has appeared in the Staten Island Creative Community Quarterly Journal 2018, and she produced and edited Kinky Reggae a zine for ETG Café.  Fern participated in the Brooklyn Book Festival 2020. You can find her work online in Taint Taint Taint Magazine (Issue No. 2) and About Place Journal: Works of Resistance, Resilience (Vol VI Issue II).  She is currently working on a manuscript poetry that focuses on her photo exhibit and research about Black Indians in America and her own Chickasaw Freedmen heritage entitled Diggin’ Up Stuff In The Cornfield.