Featuring Douglas Curran and Stephanie Laterza

Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson

Plus open mic

21+

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

Douglas Curran is a fiction writer, essayist, poet, and artist in Brooklyn, New York. His short stories, essays, and illustrations have appeared in Time magazine, Notre Dame Magazine, The Frogmore Papers, Andrei Codrescu’s Exquisite Corpse, American Letters and Commentary, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship for fiction and an MFA from the University of Notre Dame, since 2000, he has held the position of editor of architecture and design at Rizzoli International Publications, New York. His short story “Her Holland, on an Overcast Day” will be included in the upcoming anthology from great weather for MEDIA and his website and blog, “Shakespeare and a Cup of Coffee,” can be found at www.Douglas-Curran.com.

Stephanie Laterza is the author of the poetry chapbook, The Psyche Trials (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and a SU-CASA 2018 award recipient from the Brooklyn Arts Council. Stephanie’s work has been featured in L'Éphémère Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, A Gathering of the Tribes, Newtown Literary, Literary Mama, Akashic Books, Ovunque Siamo, Raising Mothers, the anthologies Mightier: Poets for Social Justice, Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity, Brownstone Poets (2020), San Francisco Peace and Hope, I Wanna Be Loved By You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, and elsewhere. Stephanie’s social justice-focused poetry collection, Verás, is forthcoming from Broadstone Books (2023). Follow Stephanie: Instagram @stef3rd.