Wednesday August 21, 2024 – 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom

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Katherine Sarwopeni Antarikso (she/her) is an architect, writer and performer. She was born in Jakarta, on the island of Java, Indonesia, and moved to the United States at the age of 10. Her unique upbringing is a driver of her many talents and expressions. As an architect, she is interested in issues of equity regarding the design of urban spaces. As a creative, she performs in a traditional Indonesian dance group, gamelan ensemble and writes poetry and essays centered on themes of home, migration, and displacement.
Erme Maula is a Community Advocate, Educator, Doula, Facilitator and Nurse. Her most recent writing can be found in In the Future, There are No Hospitals – an abolitionist-focused collection of work by Queer and Asian care workers. Erme is part of the Grind Council that manages The Grind – a daily writing project that brings together poetry and prose writers in communities of accountability
Peter Webb is a Philadelphia based poet who is largely interested in irreverence, direct language, violence, addiction, depravity, evil, scatology, trauma, crime, internet writing, post-irony, mumblecore, etc. @thepeterpoems
John Wojtowicz grew up working on his family’s azalea and rhododendron nursery and still lives in the backwoods of what Ginsberg dubbed “nowhere Zen New Jersey.” Currently, he teaches social work at Stockton University. He has been featured on Rowan University’s Writer’s Roundtable on 89.7 WGLS-FM and several of his poems were showcased in Princeton University’s 2021 Unique Minds: Creative Voices art exhibition. Recent or forthcoming publications include: Rattle, Split Rock Review, Soundings East, Ekphrastic Review, and the South Florida Poetry Journal. He is the author of the coffee table-style chapbook, Roadside Attractions: a Poetic Guide to American Oddities. Find out more at: www.johnwojtowicz.com
Sean Hanahan Host, Open Reading Follows