Live Poetry Reading: Alicia Askenase, Julia Blumenreich

Live at Fergie’s Pub

1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudOqpqT8oEt0RnjqPfwJgqoS46VZuKs6W

Alicia Askenase is the author of The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press) and Shirley Shirley (sonaweb) and a few chaplets. She was a co-founding editor of the literary journal 6ix, and Literary Curator of the Walt Whitman Art Center for many years. Her poetry has appeared in the anthologies: New Work by Philadelphia Poets, Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets, Second Edition, Art Through the Eyes of Mad Poets, An Ekphrastic Poetry Collection, and others. Her writing has also appeared in literary journals such as: Chain, editions #2 and #12, Poetry New York, The World, Feminist Studies, and The Journal of Modern Languages. Recent publications include The Manhattanville Review, The Painted Bride Quarterly http://pbqmag.org/issue-100/, with new work forthcoming in spring 2022 from the Paterson Literary Review.

Julia Blumenreich, author of Meeting Tessie, Artificial Memory, Blue Angel of a Day and The What of Underfoot, is a poet who is in her 25th year of teaching 4th grade at Germantown Academy. She is a recipient of a PCA grant and a finalist for the 2016 Brittany Noakes Poetry Award. In 2012, she collaborated with the visual artist, Wendy Osterweil, on ‘Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott’ a poetry/ sculptural installation/print show at The Painted Bride Art Center. Four of her poems have been set to music composed by Kyle Smith and were performed as part of “Lyric Fest” in 2014. Her recent work has been published in “The Whirlwind Review, “Philadelphia Stories,” and in “An Anthology of Philadelphia Poets,” edited by Valerie Fox and translated into Romanian by Daniel Dragomirescu.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts – Open Reading Follows