Spoken Word Sundays now in Zoom every two weeks!

Featuring Caitlin Jans and Shanna T. Melton

Plus open mic

Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson

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

Caitlin Jans (Thomson) has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals including The Adroit Journal, Penn Review, Barrow Street, Cosmonaut Avenue, The Boiler, and Till the Tides. She's the author of three chapbooks and the founder of Authors Publish Magazine. You can learn more about her writing at www.caitlinthomson.com.

A recipient of the Connecticut Office of the Arts Hero Award (2018), Shanna T. Melton is a poet, painter, educator, and the author of Unraveling My Thoughts. Her contributions to Connecticut’s vibrant poetry scene include arts ambassadorships for the Mary & Eliza Freeman Center for History and Community, the Housatonic Museum of Art, and the founding of the open mic institution that is Lyrical Voices, a local showcase for contemporary poets and visual artists from across the region. Work from her current exhibition “Her Dragons Fly” is on view and online at www.PoeticSoulArts.net.