Wednesday, November 29 — 7PM LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub & on Zoom

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Jim Cory published his first poem 50 years ago. His most recent publications are Birds & Buildings, Wipers Float In The Neck Of The Reservoir and 25 Short Poems Recent essays include “What makes a queen a queen?” in the Gay & Lesbian Review, “ Fascinating Asshole (or) How I Came To Love Frank Sinatra” in New Haven Review, and “Where’s the hotboy going tonight?” in Chelsea Station. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council, Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony.

Peter F. Murphy is author of two poetry books: Maps of Three Continents and Underwater and teaches at Murray State University. His books include Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By, Fictions of Masculinity, and Feminism and Masculinities. His essays and reviews have been published in, among others, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Twentieth Century Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, College Literature, Signs, and Feminist Studies. His poems have appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review and New Madrid.

Sekai’afua Zankel, actor, writer, and poet, She is the author of Behind These Eyes/Optical Poems, and a winner of the Leeway Foundation, Art and Change Grant for her Poetry Play, Miss Pearl’s Spirit: In the Mysteries of Mirrors. Her poems have been published In the CAP literary magazine, “Poetry Ink”, several Anthologies, and in “Apiary”, 7 Power Issue. Sekai lives in Philadelphia with her husband, musician Bobby Zankel.