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IN ONE WEEK!!!

IN ONE WEEK!!!

great weather for MEDIA Presents: Laurel S. Peterson & Francine Witte

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

Laurel S. Peterson: Poet, Author – Norwalk, CT

-and-

Francine Witte: Poet, Author – New York, NY

When:
Sunday, March 28th, 2021 – 4pm-6pm EDT

Where: ONLINE ZOOM

** To watch directly on zoom and to read on open mic, you must register for this event via Eventbrite

YOU MUST PREREGISTER FOR ZOOM ADMITTANCE: click link to register via
Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/laurel-s-peterson-and-francine-witte-plus-open-mic-registration-140856129475

The features will also be live-streamed to the great weather for MEDIA facebook page

Plus open mic. (3 minutes) – The host will be taking open mic signups during the event.

Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson

Admission: FREE

21+

POET BIOs

Laurel S. Peterson

Laurel S. Peterson is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College. Her poetry has been published in many small literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks, That’s the Way the Music Sounds and Talking to the Mirror, and a full-length collection, Do You Expect Your Art to Answer? She also co-edited a collection of essays on women’s justice titled (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women’s Experience and wrote a mystery novel, Shadow Notes. Her second mystery novel, The Fallen, is scheduled to be released later this year, and a new poetry collection, Daughter of Sky, will be released in early 2022. She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine Inkwell, and served as the town of Norwalk, Connecticut’s, Poet Laureate from April 2016 – April 2019.

Francine Witte

Francine Witte’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Mid-American Review, Passages North, and many others. Her latest books are Dressed All Wrong for This (Blue Light Press,) The Way of the Wind (AdHoc fiction,) and (The Theory of Flesh.) Her chapbook, The Cake, The Smoke, The Moon (flash fiction) will be published by ELJ September, 2021. She lives in NYC.

MY NEW BOOK IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

MY NEW BOOK IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

I have approved the first draft and am waiting for proofs. Production will be complete by the end of May!

However, you don’t have to wait to reserve a copy. You can pre-order my book: “Poets Should Not Write About Politics”

Just click the link below for pre-order:

https://eveningstreetpress.com/contests/

IN JUST TWO WEEKS!!!

IN JUST TWO WEEKS!!!

great weather for MEDIA Presents: Laurel S. Peterson & Francine Witte

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

Laurel S. Peterson: Poet, Author – Norwalk, CT

-and-

Francine Witte: Poet, Author – New York, NY

When:
Sunday, March 28th, 2021 – 4pm-6pm EDT

Where: ONLINE ZOOM

** To watch directly on zoom and to read on open mic, you must register for this event via Eventbrite

YOU MUST PREREGISTER FOR ZOOM ADMITTANCE: click link to register via
Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/laurel-s-peterson-and-francine-witte-plus-open-mic-registration-140856129475

The features will also be live-streamed to the great weather for MEDIA facebook page

Plus open mic. (3 minutes) – The host will be taking open mic signups during the event.

Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson

Admission: FREE

21+

POET BIOs

Laurel S. Peterson

Laurel S. Peterson is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College. Her poetry has been published in many small literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks, That’s the Way the Music Sounds and Talking to the Mirror, and a full-length collection, Do You Expect Your Art to Answer? She also co-edited a collection of essays on women’s justice titled (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women’s Experience and wrote a mystery novel, Shadow Notes. Her second mystery novel, The Fallen, is scheduled to be released later this year, and a new poetry collection, Daughter of Sky, will be released in early 2022. She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine Inkwell, and served as the town of Norwalk, Connecticut’s, Poet Laureate from April 2016 – April 2019.

Francine Witte

Francine Witte’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Mid-American Review, Passages North, and many others. Her latest books are Dressed All Wrong for This (Blue Light Press,) The Way of the Wind (AdHoc fiction,) and (The Theory of Flesh.) Her chapbook, The Cake, The Smoke, The Moon (flash fiction) will be published by ELJ September, 2021. She lives in NYC.