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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.

Leonard Gontarek coordinates Peace/Works, Poetry In Common, Philly Poetry Day, hosts The Green Line Reading & Interview Series, is Poetry Consultant for Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy and contributing editor for The American Poetry Review. He is the author of six books of poems, has twice received poetry fellowships from the PCA and conducts poetry workshops.

Max Gontarek is a poet from Philadelphia. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University’s Writing Seminars program and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In addition to writing poetry, he makes music under various pseudonyms, including Sally Port, Hoist Point, and A Clip in the Lughole.

Charles S. Carr, Host, Open Reading Follows