Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM

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2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM
There are there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area. They represent every poetry form, ethnic background, age, gender and community. This series consists of a panel of guest poets and artists discussing the opportunities which their group or organization provides for poets in Philly as well as the themes that influence them. The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us.

Tuesday April 2, 2019 -6:30pm

Walt Whitman – Part 1

Since 1995, Lynne Farrington has been a curator in Penn’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, now part of the Kislak Center, where she works closely with faculty, students, and other researchers, makes acquisitions, stewards donors, curates exhibitions, organizes symposia and conferences, develops projects, fields reference queries, and gives presentations on the collections to classes and other interested groups. 

Leonard Gontarek is the author of five books of poems, including, Déjà Vu Diner and He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Verse, Poetry Northwest and The Best American Poetry, among others. He is host of the Green Line Café Reading and Interview Series and conducts poetry workshops throughout the Philadelphia area.

From 1986 to 2000, Judith Tannenbaum served as Curator, Associate Director, and Interim Director at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. In 2000, she became the first Curator of Contemporary Art at the RISD Museum, Providence. Since returning to Philadelphia in 2013, she has used her broad knowledge of the visual arts, the performing arts, and interdisciplinary art forms to curate exhibitions and events at area institutions.

Host, Charles S. Carr

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