Spoken Word Sundays is back at New York City’s Parkside Lounge!

** EVERYONE MUST PROVIDE PROOF OF FULL VACCINATION TO ENTER THE VENUE.

As you know, things change fast. Please keep checking our website and Facebook page for updates. There is also construction planned for the Parkside this fall. If we can’t be at the Parkside during this time, we will return to Zoom.

Featuring Matthew Hupert and Karen Neuberg

Plus poetry open mic

Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson

21+

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

Matthew Hupert is a writer, a multi-media artist, and that rare bird, a New York City Native. He is a founder of the the NeuroNautic Institute & of NeuroNautic Press, with 2 full length collections, Ism is a Retrovirus and Secular Pantheism, as well as several chapbooks and anthology appearances, including Paper Teller Diorama, the latest from great weather for MEDIA. Matthew hosts several poetry reading series, including the annual showcase for New York voices, Night in the Naked City, and the monthly series, NeuroNautic Institute Presents, with his partner Meghan Grupposo. He is a recipient of the 2020 New York Acker Award for Show Organizer and Host.

When he’s not writing he can be found cooking for his family.

Karen Neuberg is the author of the full-length poetry collection, PURSUIT (Kelsay Press) and the chapbook the elephants are asking (Glass Lyre) She holds an MFA from the New School and is associate editor of the online poetry journal First Literary Review-East. You can also find Karen’s poetry in the great weather for MEDIA anthology Escape Wheel. She lives in Brooklyn.