Brownstone Poets on Zoom: David Dephy, Pamela Laskin, Zohreh Zadbood, Sat, January 31, 2026
Posted on January 14, 2026
Happy New Year! Time to manifest a fabulous 2026 for peace, love, happiness, and poetry!
Brownstone Poets on Zoom is back for another superb year of poetry.
You are invited to join us for our January event on Zoom on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at 2 pm ET with David Dephy, Pamela Laskin, and Zohreh Zahbood.
Plus a limited open mic. Your $5 contribution keeps our annual anthology in print. Hosted by Patricia Carragon, our Brooklyn girl and Editor-in-Chief.
Please follow the directions below, completing both steps at least two days before the reading to avoid delays entering the meeting room. Note the order of the open mic follows the order of signup. Sign up early to read early in the program. Last-minute signup means you will read at the end of the program. The cutoff for Zoom access for an open mic slot is noon the day of reading. After noon, late registrants are not guaranteed Zoom access to join the open but will receive a link to watch the reading live-streamed on YouTube.
Please follow these instructions:
Step 1: Make your $5 contribution: https://bit.ly/3bkqFmO
(Note that your contribution is not refundable.)
Step 2: Register in advance for this meeting:
https://bit.ly/3hnpy8D
Step 3: After making your contribution and completing your registration, you will receive a confidential confirmation email containing your unique link to join the event.
Facebook Invite:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1095400162632846
Looking forward to seeing you at our reading!
Bios:
David Dephy is a Georgian American award-winning poet and novelist. He founded Poetry Orchestra and is the Poet-in-Residence for Brownstone Poets 2024-2026. His poem, “A Sense of Purpose,” is being sent to the Moon by The Lunar Codex, NASA, and Brick Street Poetry in 2025. He was exiled from his native country of Georgia in 2017 and was granted political asylum in the USA immediately and indefinitely. His family, beloved wife, and nine-year-old son joined him in the U.S. after seven years of exile in 2023. He lives and works in New York City.
Pamela L. Laskin taught children’s writing and directed the Poetry Outreach Center at City College. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, children’s literature, and fiction. She is a recipient of the International Fiction Prize from Leapfrog Press and two Freedom Through Literacy Awards. Ms. Laskin has received the Judith’s Room Freedom Through Literacy Board Option Prize in 2022 for her middle-grade novel, What I Forgot to Tell You (forthcoming 2025), and again in 2023 for her current novel. She is currently collaborating with Ukrainian author Vasyl Makhno on a YA verse novel, Wisteria and Weeds.
Zohreh Zadbood is an Iranian storyteller, photographer, and poet writing in Persian and English. A recent NYU graduate, she is completing her MFA in creative writing at The New School. Her work appears in The Kenyon Review, About Place Journal, The Los Angeles Press, Soup Can Magazine, and New Generation Beats Anthology. Her poem “Nobaraneh” was named Poem of the Week by Beatlife Magazine. She has performed at Unnameable Books (2024), the NYPL–58th St. Branch (2023), and The 550 Garden (2024) for the East Midtown Partnership’s World Poetry Day celebrations and at Café Lafayette during the Jersey City Artist Studio Tour (2025).