Live Poetry Event with Liz Chang, Chad Frame, and Mary Jo LoBello Jerome

Wednesday January 18 @ 7PM

Live at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom Street

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

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcu-trzIqHdBee3AuTkKCu3tGXaMoi1cJ

Liz Chang was 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate in Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, Exit 7, Rock & Sling, Breakwater Review and Stoneboat Literary Journal, among others. Her fourth collection, a chapbook called Museum of Things, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2023. Her creative nonfiction recently appeared in Oyster River Pages, and her flash fiction has been published internationally. Chang’s translation of Claude de Burine’s work is anthologized in Paris in Our View from l’Association des Amis de Shakespeare & Company. Liz lives en les environs de Philadelphia with her family, dog, cat, and a hive of honeybees. She is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Moravian University. 

Photo credit: Adrianne Matiowetz  

Chad Frame is the author of Little Black Book (2022, Finishing Line Press), nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, and a chapbook, Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, PA, the Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry/improv performance troupe, and Founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work appears in Rattle, Pedestal, Barrelhouse, Rust+Moth, and elsewhere, on iTunes from the Library of Congress, and was sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Project. 

Mary Jo LoBello Jerome has a new book out, Torch the Empty Fields, which was a finalist in the Women’s Voices Competition at Finishing Line, and released in December. She is one of the Poetry Co-Editors of Schuylkill Valley Journal and a Poet Laureate of Bucks County. She edited Fire Up the Poems, an anthology of writing prompts for teachers, published in 2021. Her poems and short stories have been published widely. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, has taught writing at all levels, and has written for The New York Times, Scholastic Inc., and many other publications.   

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