Featuring Oliver Covington, Evelyn Katz, and Omayma Khayat
Hosted by Ricardo Thomas Manuel Hernández
Plus open mic
21+
$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.
Brooklyn born and raised, Oliver Covington didn’t really start writing seriously until he attended Brooklyn College and he hasn’t stopped since. He self-published his first book of poems The Wake of Words back in 2008. Since then he has published 11 more books including 2 books of short stories and 3 volumes of Haiku. His current book Prisoner 6772 was released earlier this year. He has been featured at the Green Pavilion Poets, and Boulevard Bards. He is also featured in the anthology Leisure... Dinner with the Muse Vol III. He currently has three projects percolating in his stormy little brain to be released at a future date. When asked why he writes he simply replied... it’s cheaper than therapy.
Evelyn Katz is a Brooklyn writer who has been writing since the second grade in spite of her second-grade teacher. Before becoming an assistant principal, she taught English and ESL for fifteen years at which time she founded The Falcon Pen Literary Magazine showcasing student poetry. She is the recipient of the Irwin Shaw Honorary Mention in Fiction Writing. Her work can be read in Riverrun Literary Magazine, The Voices’ Project, Coffee Shop Poems, Tell Us A Story Blog and Leisure... Dinner with the Muse Vol III.
Omayma Khayat is an emerging poet living in Brooklyn. She describes herself this way: A Sunday or Transit Poet who writes when she can find a few minutes to steal away. It could be on a park bench while watching her child play, on the morning/evening commute on the mostly untrusted and unreliable public transportation system, or late into the night when she should be asleep. Being a busy mom, working on her career as a project manager in the printing industry, Omayma has yet to have a book published, or have poems accepted into journals or anthologies. And she is perfectly ok with that, as she would say, my poetry is meant to be read or heard and I've found venues where that is accepted without having a "published" identity, yet.