With the coronavirus pandemic, we're hosting as much virtual programming as we can! That means we're moving our monthly open mic to an online meeting.

Though when we host our open mics in person the focus is on storytelling and prose, anything goes at these weekly virtual open mics - poetry, comedy, music, any form of creative expression.

This week's featured artist is Sonja Franeta.

Sonja Franeta is a writer, educator and activist born in the Bronx, New York to an immigrant Yugoslav family. Her translations and articles about Russian queers and other writings have appeared in the U.S. and internationally. In 2004 she published the book Rozovye Flamingo, ten interviews of Siberian LGBTs in Russian. In 2017 the English translation was published as Pink Flamingos: 10 Siberian Interviews. My Pink Road to Russia:Tales of Amazons, Peasants and Queers is a collection of her memoir, essays, stories, poems in English. Recently, Teachers as Allies: Transformative Practices for Teaching DREAMers & Undocumented Students, edited by Shelley Wong, Elaisa Sanchez Gosnell, et al was published with Juan Rios and Sonja Franeta's chapter on LGBTQ DREAMers.

Find more info at www.sfraneta.com.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/945350264?pwd=WFNaZm1aSDRjdkZvRkZyRGZDZlBsQT09

Password: 599937

Meeting ID: 945 350 264

Please sign in around 6:50 p.m. to ensure you don't encounter any technical difficulties. Readings will begin around 7 p.m.

If you plan to read at the open mic, please email your name to WordierThanThou@gmail.com. We will pull names at random.

Open mic readers get 10 minutes and will be timed. We encourage all readers to stay to the end and support everyone who signs up to share their work.