Serotonin Anthology Release Reading

Sunday December 29, 2024 – 2pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street

On zoom –  Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdemvrTkoHNCjR-UHD_ESBLD1ayB-_vOL 

Cynthia Arrieu-King was raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and earned her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. A former Kundiman Fellow, Arrieu-King is the author of the poetry chapbook The Small Anything City and the full-length poetry collections People Are Tiny in Paintings of China and Manifest. With Sophia Kartsonis, she coauthored the chapbook By Some Miracle a Year Lousy with Meteors. She also cowrote the collection Unlikely Conditions with the late Hillary Gravendyk. Arrieu-King teaches at Stockton University and has been a poet at the Dodge Poetry Festival.

Jane-Rebecca Cannarella is a writer and editor living in West Philadelphia. She edits HOOT Review, a magazine published on postcards, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, a broadside press, and was an editor for Lunch Ticket from 2015 to 2017. Jane-Rebecca is the author of the flash fiction collections, Better Bones and Thirst and Frost, as well as the poetry collections, A Practical Almanac for Surviving Inside the Human, Eleven Hundred, and others. She works as a paralegal for an immigration law firm.

Sean Hanrahan is a Philadelphian poet originally hailing from Dale City, Virginia. He is the author of the full-length collections Ghost Signs and Safer Behind Popcorn and the chapbooks Hardened Eyes on the Scan and Gay Cake. His work has also been included in several anthologies, including Moonstone Featured Poets, Queer Around the World, and Stonewall’s Legacy, and several journals, including Impossible Archetype, Poetica Review, and Voicemail Poems. He has taught classes titled A Chapbook in 49 Days and Ekphrastic Poetry and hosted poetry events throughout Philadelphia.

Warren C. Longmire is a writer, performer and teacher from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He hosts House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and founded _mixlit. Warren’s work has been published in journals including Action, Spectacle, The Cleveland Review of Books, R&R, The Best American Poetry 2021, and  A Black Philadelphia Reader: African American Writings About the City of Brotherly Love. His latest book, Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop] was released in Nov. 2022 through Bunnie Press. Warren is currently a student at the Iowa Writers Workshop pursuing an MFA in Poetry.

Amber Renee is a chronic writer from Bucks County, PA. Known to mix mediums, Author of Thoughts on This Most Recent Episode i feel like i’m nothing In memory, energy, Nothing / is Forever. She’s is current co-creating brand new Poetry-Songs with Jake Noonan under the band name “The Goodbye Mind.” The duo’s songs are currently available on Spotify & Youtube. Find Amber on social media @amberreneepoet or @thegoodbyemind                                                

Amy Saul-Zerby is the author of Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds, Deep Camouflage, and Choose Your Own Beginning. Her poems have appeared in The Rumpus, The Chicago Review of Books, American Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. She edits Voicemail Poems.                                                  

Sean Lynch – Host – Open Reading Follows