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Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923

Adriann “Just The Pen” Bautista is a Mother, Research Grant Manager at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Playwright, Poet , Founder and CEO of Just the Pen, LLC,  Founder of Just The Pen Foundation, Founder & Facilitator of Inspired & Empowered to Move for Women Who Lead and Host of the new project Talks with Just The Pen. As an established Poet, Adriann is author of “Ballad of a Beautiful Brown King”, “Sister Strength” and “Sanctuary of Snow”.  She is published in various anthologies including Poetry Ink, P.E.A.S. Magazine and Thomas Jefferson University’s Literary magazine,  Inside Out, and Standing our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin & Marissa Alexander .

 Aileen Cassinetto is the Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, California. Widely anthologized, she is also the author of the poetry collections, Traje de Boda and The Pink House of Purple Yam Preserves & Other Poems, as well as three chapbooks through Moria Books’ acclaimed Locofo series. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Asahi Shimbun, The Banyan Review, Moss Trill, The Nonconformist Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Vox Populi, among others. Organizer of “POWER TO THE POETS reading series, Aileen’s work is also featured in the curated “Wall + Response” project on social, political, racial and justice narratives in Clarion Alley, San Francisco.

Joanne Leva is the author of Eve Heads Back and Eve Would Know and an advocate for creative writing and community service. She is founder and executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program (MCPL) and founder and editor-in-chief of Tekpoet, an online poetry manuscript services company. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Peace Is a Haiku Song, 50 Over Fifty, Apiary, E-Verse Radio, The Schuylkill Valley Journal, Rag Queen Periodical, Bucks County Writer, and Transcendent Visions, among others. Her poem, “God Walks into a Bar,” was featured in a Philadelphia Calligraphers’ Society Poetry Reading & Exhibit and companion publication entitled, Scripta.

Elijah Pringle, Host

Open reading follows