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Spoken Word Sundays NYC

  • The Parkside Lounge 317 East Houston Street New York (map)

Featuring Lynn McGee  and AE Weisgerber

Guest hosted by Billy Cancel

Plus open mic

21+

$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non

 
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Lynn McGee is the author of the poetry collection Tracks (Broadstone Books, 2019), Sober Cooking (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2016), and two award-winning poetry chapbooks: Heirloom Bulldog (Bright Hill Press, 2015), and Bonanza (Slapering Hol Press, 1997). Lynn earned an MFA at Columbia University, was a MacDowell fellow, a winner of the Judith's Room Emerging Writers Award, a 2015 Nominee for Best of the Net, and a recipient of the NYC Literacy Center's Recognition Award as well as the Heart of the Center Award from the LGBT Center in New York City. Her work is forthcoming or recently appeared in the Upstreet Literary Journal, Tampa Review, Lavender Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Across the Waves: Contemporary Poetry from Ireland and the United States and others. She lives and bike rides in the Bronx, New York. 

 
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A. E. Weisgerber is a teacher, and hybrid writer from Orange, New Jersey. She is a 2018 Chesapeake Writer, the 2017 Frost Place Scholar, and a Kent State Reynolds Journalism Fellow. She is Associate Editor for the Wigleaf Top 50 flash fiction series. Her work has been published by 3:AM Magazine, DIAGRAM, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Alaska Star, SmokeLong Quarterly, Essaying Daily, Gravel, great weather for MEDIA, Matchbook, and the Zoetrope Cafe Story Machine.  Her stories have been translated, anthologized, and nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best Micro Fiction, and The Pushcart Prize. Follow @aeweisgerber or visit anneweisgerber.com




Earlier Event: March 17
Spoken Word Sundays NYC
Later Event: March 28
AWP Conference 2019