Author: Jerry T. Johnson, Writer

BIO Jerry T Johnson is a Poet and Spoken Word Artist whose poetry has appeared in a variety of literary publications worldwide. In addition to being the winner of the 2020 Evening Street Press’ Sinclair Poetry Prize, Jerry’s poetry has also appeared in: Burning Word Literary Journal, great weather for MEDIA 2017 & 2020 Anthologies, The Long Islander (Walt’s Corner), Straylight Literary Magazine, Here Comes Everyone (Silhouette Press), Drunk Monkeys Literature + Film Magazine, Barnstorm Literary Journal, Blue Moon Literary and & Art Review, Rimes of The Ancient Mariner Silver Tongued Devil Anthology, Brownstone Poets 2020 Anthology, Blue Lake Review, ANYDSWPE 2020 Anthology (RogueScholars Press), Beyond Words International Literary Magazine, and many more. In addition to his published work, Jerry features and perform guest host duties at many Spoken Word and Poetry venues in the New York City and Southern Connecticut areas. Jerry also serves as host of the Poets, Writers & Storytellers Stage of the annual Norwalk Art Festival in Norwalk, Connecticut. You may follow Jerry’s work on the following social media networks: jtjohnpoet.com, twitter.com/jetjohn3 and facebook.com/jtjpoetry. Jerry lives with his wife Raye in Danbury, Connecticut.

Notes From My Kitchen #33

Notes From My Kitchen #33

Mostly Veggie Sauté Pan Potluck

Kale —plucked straight from my patio garden
Sliced Carrots, Chopped Zucchini, Sliced
Onions, Crushed Garlic, a little Onion Powder,
a little Garlic Salt, a little black pepper,
a few slices of Bacon, Shrimp—quite many,
Chicken broth, and oh yes —butter
garnish with Cherry Tomatoes—also
from my patio garden and there you have
it —my own mostly veggie Sauté Pan Potluck

TODAY AT 4PM EDT

TODAY AT 4PM EDT!!!

great weather for MEDIA Presents: Gordon Gilbert and Judith Lee Herbert

LIVE AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE !!!
317 East Houston Street, Manhattan NY, NY

great weather for Media is bringing you another great poetry event featuring:

Gordon Gilbert

-and-

Judith Lee Herbert

Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson

Plus open mic
21+
$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non

BIOs

Gordon Gilbert

A long time NYC west villager, Gordon Gilbert writes not only poetry, but also short stories, monologues, short fiction and a play (Monologues from the Old Folks Home), with eight productions over the years at various Manhattan venues. Over the last dozen years, Gordon has hosted over a dozen programs celebrating the beat generation and other writers. A member of Irish American Writers and Artists, he occasionally hosts their salons. Most recently, Gordon has co-hosted three programs with Robert Gibbons celebrating the poetry and lives of Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Currently he is hosting one open mic poetry program on ZOOM and providing technical assistance on another. During the pandemic, Gordon has found solace and inspiration in walks along the Hudson River, photographing and writing about the wildlife, flora and river traffic as the seasons change. It gives him hope in these terrible times, but he knows that is not enough. Change only comes when we act to make it so.
 

Judith Lee Herbert

A graduate Cum Laude in English Literature from Columbia University, Judith Lee Herbert returned to poetry after a successful career in another field. Her chapbook, Songbird, published in 2019 by Kelsay Books, was a finalist in the 2017 Blue Light Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her poems have been placed in the String Poet Contest, the Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Contest, and Mid-Island Y Poetry Contest. Her poetry also appears in publications including Long Island Quarterly, These Fragile Lilacs, First Literary Review East, The Ekphrastic Review, and Silver-Tongued Devil Anthology. She enjoys reading her poems at venues in New York City and Long Island.

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TOMORROW!!!

TOMORROW!!!

great weather for MEDIA Presents: Gordon Gilbert and Judith Lee Herbert

LIVE AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE !!!
317 East Houston Street, Manhattan NY, NY

great weather for Media is bringing you another great poetry event featuring:

Gordon Gilbert

-and-

Judith Lee Herbert

Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson

Plus open mic
21+
$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non

BIOs

Gordon Gilbert

A long time NYC west villager, Gordon Gilbert writes not only poetry, but also short stories, monologues, short fiction and a play (Monologues from the Old Folks Home), with eight productions over the years at various Manhattan venues. Over the last dozen years, Gordon has hosted over a dozen programs celebrating the beat generation and other writers. A member of Irish American Writers and Artists, he occasionally hosts their salons. Most recently, Gordon has co-hosted three programs with Robert Gibbons celebrating the poetry and lives of Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Currently he is hosting one open mic poetry program on ZOOM and providing technical assistance on another. During the pandemic, Gordon has found solace and inspiration in walks along the Hudson River, photographing and writing about the wildlife, flora and river traffic as the seasons change. It gives him hope in these terrible times, but he knows that is not enough. Change only comes when we act to make it so.
 

Judith Lee Herbert

A graduate Cum Laude in English Literature from Columbia University, Judith Lee Herbert returned to poetry after a successful career in another field. Her chapbook, Songbird, published in 2019 by Kelsay Books, was a finalist in the 2017 Blue Light Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her poems have been placed in the String Poet Contest, the Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Contest, and Mid-Island Y Poetry Contest. Her poetry also appears in publications including Long Island Quarterly, These Fragile Lilacs, First Literary Review East, The Ekphrastic Review, and Silver-Tongued Devil Anthology. She enjoys reading her poems at venues in New York City and Long Island.

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IN JUST ONE WEEK!!!

IN JUST ONE WEEK!!!

great weather for MEDIA Presents: Gordon Gilbert and Judith Lee Herbert

LIVE AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE !!!

great weather for Media is bringing you another great poetry event featuring:

Gordon Gilbert

-and-

Judith Lee Herbert

Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson

Plus open mic
21+
$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non

BIOs

Gordon Gilbert

A long time NYC west villager, Gordon Gilbert writes not only poetry, but also short stories, monologues, short fiction and a play (Monologues from the Old Folks Home), with eight productions over the years at various Manhattan venues. Over the last dozen years, Gordon has hosted over a dozen programs celebrating the beat generation and other writers. A member of Irish American Writers and Artists, he occasionally hosts their salons. Most recently, Gordon has co-hosted three programs with Robert Gibbons celebrating the poetry and lives of Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Currently he is hosting one open mic poetry program on ZOOM and providing technical assistance on another. During the pandemic, Gordon has found solace and inspiration in walks along the Hudson River, photographing and writing about the wildlife, flora and river traffic as the seasons change. It gives him hope in these terrible times, but he knows that is not enough. Change only comes when we act to make it so.
 

Judith Lee Herbert

A graduate Cum Laude in English Literature from Columbia University, Judith Lee Herbert returned to poetry after a successful career in another field. Her chapbook, Songbird, published in 2019 by Kelsay Books, was a finalist in the 2017 Blue Light Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her poems have been placed in the String Poet Contest, the Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Contest, and Mid-Island Y Poetry Contest. Her poetry also appears in publications including Long Island Quarterly, These Fragile Lilacs, First Literary Review East, The Ekphrastic Review, and Silver-Tongued Devil Anthology. She enjoys reading her poems at venues in New York City and Long Island.

https://facebook.com/events/s/great-weather-for-media-presen/763112271361762/

IIN JUST TWO WEEKS!!!

IN JUST TWO WEEKS!!!

great weather for MEDIA Presents: Gordon Gilbert and Judith Lee Herbert

LIVE AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE !!!

great weather for Media is bringing you another great poetry event featuring:

Gordon Gilbert

-and-

Judith Lee Herbert

Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson

Plus open mic
21+
$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non

BIOs

Gordon Gilbert

A long time NYC west villager, Gordon Gilbert writes not only poetry, but also short stories, monologues, short fiction and a play (Monologues from the Old Folks Home), with eight productions over the years at various Manhattan venues. Over the last dozen years, Gordon has hosted over a dozen programs celebrating the beat generation and other writers. A member of Irish American Writers and Artists, he occasionally hosts their salons. Most recently, Gordon has co-hosted three programs with Robert Gibbons celebrating the poetry and lives of Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Currently he is hosting one open mic poetry program on ZOOM and providing technical assistance on another. During the pandemic, Gordon has found solace and inspiration in walks along the Hudson River, photographing and writing about the wildlife, flora and river traffic as the seasons change. It gives him hope in these terrible times, but he knows that is not enough. Change only comes when we act to make it so.
 

Judith Lee Herbert

A graduate Cum Laude in English Literature from Columbia University, Judith Lee Herbert returned to poetry after a successful career in another field. Her chapbook, Songbird, published in 2019 by Kelsay Books, was a finalist in the 2017 Blue Light Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her poems have been placed in the String Poet Contest, the Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Contest, and Mid-Island Y Poetry Contest. Her poetry also appears in publications including Long Island Quarterly, These Fragile Lilacs, First Literary Review East, The Ekphrastic Review, and Silver-Tongued Devil Anthology. She enjoys reading her poems at venues in New York City and Long Island.

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IN ONE WEEK!!!

IN ONE WEEK!!!

great weather for MEDIA Presents: Amy Small-McKinney and Pete Dolack

LIVE AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE !!!

great weather for Media is bringing you another great poetry event with 2 amazing features:

Amy Small-McKinney

-and-

Pete Dolack

Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson

Plus open mic
21+

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

BIOs

Amy Small-McKinney

Amy Small-McKinney’s third and newest chapbook, One Day I Am A Field, was written during Covid and her husband’s illness and dying (Glass Lyre Press, 2022). For the 2020 virtual Association of Writers & Writing Programs, she co-moderated an interactive discussion, Writing Through Grief & Loss: The Intersection of Social and Personal Grief During Covid.  Her second full-length book of poems, Walking Towards Cranes, won the Kithara Book Prize (Glass Lyre Press, 2016). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, Baltimore Review, Comstock Review, Indianapolis Review, and Pedestal Magazine, among others, and is forthcoming in The Banyan Review.  Her poems have also been translated into Korean and Romanian, and her book reviews have appeared in journals, such as Prairie Schooner and Matter.  Small-McKinney resides in Philadelphia.  She has taught at conferences, community workshops, and with independent students. 

Pete Dolack

Pete Dolack is an activist, photographer, poet and writer who wishes he could keep all those balls in the air but, alas, keeps dropping some of them. When he is wearing his poet’s hat, he is the author of the chapbook And Now A Word From Our Sponsors, and writes about space, time, travel and the sad state of the world through satire. Pete’s poetry has been published in 36 publications, including Poetrybay, Sensitive Skin, Will Work For Peace anthology, Blue Collar Review, Lummox, Appleseeds anthology and Tribes, the magazine of Gathering of a Tribes. He is also a former non-fiction editor for the online literary publication Mad Hatter’s Review. When he is wearing a different hat, Pete writes the Systemic Disorder blog, and is the author of the book It’s Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment and the forthcoming book What Do We Need Bosses For? from Autonomedia.

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