IN JUST ONE WEEK!!!

Sunday, September 13th!!!

Susana H. Case & Christopher Madden – Rock great weather for MEDIA’s Spoken Word Sundays

great weather for Media is bringing you another great poetry event with 2 amazing features: Susana H. Case Poet – Brooklyn, New York and Christopher Madden, Poet – Norwalk, Connecticut!

When:

Sunday, September 13th – 4pm-6pm EDT

Where:

ONLINE ZOOM

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

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/susana-h-case-and-christopher-madden-registration-118780127559

Also: ONLINE – STREAMED LIVE on great weather for MEDIA’s facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/great.weather/

Open Mic

21+

Hosted by Jerry T Johnson

BIOs

Susana H. Case

Susana H. Case is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Dead Shark on the N Train, from Broadstone Books, 2020, which won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book. She is also the author of five chapbooks. Her first collection, The Scottish Café, from Slapering Hol Press, was re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka by Opole University Press and she has also been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Case is a Professor and Program Coordinator at the New York Institute of Technology in New York City and can be reached at http://www.susanahcase.com

Christopher Madden

Christopher Madden was born in a laundromat under a full moon on Friday the 13th during the Summer of Love. He has a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin, an MFA in fiction from Fairfield University, and a BA in sideshow skills from Coney Island, U.S.A. When he is not eating fire, sticking his hand in animal traps, or hammering spikes into his nose, he is an adjunct instructor of creative writing and literature at Fairfield University. His work has appeared in Silver Birch Press, Temenos, SPRY Lit, Ball, and Airways Magazine, and he is the author/editor (as Penny Farthing) of Alice’s Adventures in #Wonderland — a gentle update of the Lewis Carroll classic for the digital age. Madden is a founding partner and editor at Woodhall Press and is the co-director of the Black Rock Art Guild Performing Artists. For more information, visit Woodhallpress.com

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Only We Can Help Prevent ZOOM Bombing

I’m reminded of the Smokey the
Bear commercial from years past:

“Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires”

I want to start a campaign:

“Only We Can Help Prevent Zoom Bombing”

Social Distancing will be around for a while. I expect we will need to interact over social media venues for poetry events. This includes Zoom and I wouldn’t be surprised if hackers found a way to infiltrate other Cloud Venues as well.

I have hosted 5 events online. I was bombed only once. I implemented several principles for hosting a meeting on ZOOM and I was successful after that. But I know the Zoom-bomber “Empire Strikes Back.” Therefore,

We (curators and attendees) Can Help Prevent ZOOM Bombing!

Here’s how we can help:

A.) Curators can use a registration system. Email list or Eventbrite. (I use both) if the name is not on the list, they cannot enter.

B.) Attendees, please use the registration process. If needed, ask friends (who use registration) for help.

C.) When logging on to the ZOOM event, try to use the name that you registered with.

D.) Try not to share the ZOOM link. Send everyone to registration.

E.) Hold practice sessions (preferably not 5 minutes before an event) with your friends, your family members & your poetry peers

F.) to the ZOOM Bombers, who somehow, got their hands on this post – May Your Empire Come Down!!! In the meantime, go and social distance yourself somewhere off the planet or Preferably OFFLINE!!!

Friends – Only We Can Help Prevent ZOOM Bombing!!!

TOMORROW!!!

Stephanie Laterza & Jack Powers Rock great weather for MEDIA’s Spoken Word Sundays

great weather for Media is bringing you another great poetry event with 2 amazing features: Stephanie Laterza, Poet, Author – Brooklyn, New York and Jack Powers, Poet – Fairfield, Connecticut!

When: Sunday, August 30th – 4pm-6pm EDT

Where: ONLINE – STREAMED LIVE on great weather for MEDIA’s facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/great.weather/

Also available on ZOOM –

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

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stephanie-laterza-and-jack-powers-registration-114226823504

Open Mic

21+

Hosted by Jerry T Johnson

BIOs

Stephanie Laterza is the author of poetry chapbook, The Psyche Trials (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and a SU-CASA 2018 award recipient from the Brooklyn Arts Council. Her work has appeared in L’Éphémère Review, Ovunque Siamo, Newtown Literary, Literary Mama, Latina Outsiders, Raising Mothers, and elsewhere. Follow Stephanie on Instagram @stef3rd.

Jack Powers is the author of Everybody’s Vaguely Familiar. His poems have appeared in Rattle, Poet Lore, Cortland Review, and elsewhere. Visit his website.

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