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Live Poetry Reading: Jacob L. Camacho, Gina Myers, Ryan Eckes

May 4, 2022 @ 7:00 pm9:00 pm

Live Poetry Reading: Jacob L. Camacho, Gina Myers, Ryan Eckes

Wednesday May 4, 2022 – 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub

1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrf-uorzosHdZJNPRXR3kPUT25I8ohQknW

 

Jacob L. Camacho is a CHamoru writer, educator, and activist born and raised in Guahan (Guam), of Islas Marianas. He received his Creative Writing MFA from Rutgers University, Camden. He is an alumni of The University of Guam and UCLA’s Extension Writers Program. Currently, he is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stockton University, a writer for Philadelphia’s TrailOff and co-founder of the Move Mountains Project 501(c)(3) in San Luis, Colorado. His stories and poems have been featured in University of Guam’s Storyboard, University of Hawai’i’s Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia and Philadelphia’s MadHouse Magazine.

 

Gina Myers‘ latest book, Some of the Times, was published by Barrelhouse in October 2020. She is the author of two other full-length poetry collections, A Model Year (2009) and Hold It Down (2013), as well as several chapbooks. In addition to poetry, she has published essays, reviews, and articles for a variety of publications, including Hyperallergic, Frontier Psychiatrist, Fanzine, The Rumpus, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. Originally from Saginaw, MI, she lives in Philadelphia, PA, where she co-edits the tiny with Emma Brown Sanders.

 

 

Ryan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. His most recent books, General Motors, Fine Nothing and Wet Money, are out of print but can be downloaded for free from Internet Archive. His work can also be read in Protean Magazine, Prolit, Wax Nine Journal and elsewhere. He edits Radiator Press.

 

 

 

 

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Date:
May 4, 2022
Time:
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Organizer

Moonstone Arts Center
Phone
215-735-9600
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Venue

Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA United States
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Phone
215.928.8118
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