South Carolina Bards Anthology Book Launch!!!
I’m grateful and to be reading at the South Carolina Bards Anthology Book Launch
Charleston, South Carolina
Saturday August 27th at 7:30 pm
(Door opens at 7:00)
Cambria Hotel, Charleston Mount Pleasant,
1472 N Hwy 17, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464
Admission Fee: $5.00
If you are in the area, please stop by and support myself and other poets whose work appears in the 2022 South Carolina Bards Anthology!
Notes From My Kitchen. No. 36
freshly plucked from
a garden of a dear friend
shucked seasoned buttered
Collards
collards also known
some places as collard greens
stems stripped leaves washed cut
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
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!!!
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/
Juneteenth!!!
Part IX of my poem titled, “The Apology”
“The Apology” appears in my book, “Poets Should Not Write About Politics” published by Evening Street Press in 2020. The Apology was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Evening Street Press.
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.
https://facebook.com/events/s/great-weather-for-media-presen/763112271361762/
Many Thanks to Drunk Monkeys Literature, Film Television for publishing my poem, “We Sigh”
https://www.drunkmonkeys.us/2017-posts/2022/6/13/poetry-we-sigh-jerry-t-johnson
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.
Jerry T. Johnson, Poet 