Live Poetry Event with Alexa Smith and Joseph Earl Thomas

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.

Wednesday January 25 @ 7PM

Event will also be streamed. Registration Required– Register Here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcuqurjojHtLlYIEefDTD2M2u1XpBGvZS

Alexa Smith is a poet and essayist from Washington D.C. She lives in West Philadelphia, where she works in publishing and serves as Editorial Director of Apiary, a free literary magazine centering Philly-area authors and artists of all genres and backgrounds in print and online. She received her MFA from Temple University and teaches workshops in poetry, creative nonfiction and interdisciplinary writing. Her work can be found in Interim, Entropy, Memoir Mixtapes, Peach Mag, Philadelphia Stories, and elsewhere, as well as streaming on STELLA Radio and Spotify.

Joseph Earl Thomas is a writer from Frankford whose work has appeared in VQR, N+1, Gulf Coast, The Offing, and The Kenyon Review. An excerpt of his memoir, Sink, won the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize and he has received fellowships from Fulbright, VONA, Tin House, Kimbilio, & Breadloaf, though he is now the Anisfield-Wolf Fellow at the CSU Poetry Center. He’s writing the novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, and a collection of stories: Leviathan Beach, among other oddities. He is also an associate faculty member at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, as well as Director of Programs at Blue Stoop, a literary hub for Philly writers.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts, Open Reading Follows