Tuesday MARCH 5, 2024

6:30pm – VIRTUAL

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM

Can be viewed on the PhillyCAM website

Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.

Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series

Elliott batTzedek is author of the enkindled coal of my tongue, the recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Award for her translations, and a residency at Norcroft: A Writing Retreat for Women. Her poems, essays, and translations have been published in the journals including  American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Sakura Review, Apiary, Cahoodaloodaling, Naugatuck River Review, Poemeleon, Poetica, Philadelphia Stories, Sinister Wisdom, Trivia, The Lesbian Review of Books, Lambda Literary Online, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Reconstructionism Today, DoubleSpeak, Menacing Hedge. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies: Beside Still Waters, Who by Plague: High Holy Days Sermons from COVID19 Times, Passageways: The 2012 Two Lines Translation Anthology, Overplay/Underdone, Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence, the English edition of the 2013 Hebrew anthology Israeli Women’s Protest Poetry ed. by Dorit Weisman, and the Oxford University Press textbook Gender Through the Prism of Difference.

For her day jobs, Elliott works multiple roles within the bookselling industry: as an event manager at a bookstore, as the Member Manager for a Regional Indie Bookstore Trade Association; as the administrator for the Professional Booksellers School; and as the dean of that school’s course in Event Management. Photo Credit: Darla Himeles

Charles S. Carr, Host