Spoken Word Sundays now in Zoom every two weeks!

Featuring Jordan E. Franklin and Ollie Kipp

Plus open mic

Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro

** To watch directly on zoom and to read on open mic, you must register for this event via Eventbrite. Registration ends 3:30 pm on the day of the event. This event will also be live-streamed to the great weather for MEDIA facebook page.

Jordan E. Franklin is a Black poet from Brooklyn, NY. An alumna of Brooklyn College, she earned her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton where she served as a Turner Fellow. Her work has appeared in the Southampton Review, Breadcrumbs, easy paradise, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Frontier, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize offered by the North American Review, and a finalist of both the 2018 Nightjar Review Poetry Contest, and the 2019 Furious Flower Poetry Prize. Her first poetry collection, when the signals come home, was selected as the winner of the 2020 Gatewood Prize and will be published by Switchback Books in Spring 2021. Her poetry chapbook, boys in the electric age, is forthcoming from Tolsun Books in August 2021.

Ollie Kipp is a poet and has been so for as long as they can remember. They grew up in Berkshires where they took part in WordxWord, the poetry scene of the small county. They currently have a few literary magazine publications under their belt. Most recently they put out their first collection of poetry in a book called Anxiety Words. Though small they are proud of it.