21st Annual Poetry Ink
100 Poets Reading
Sunday, April 30, 2017 12 noon
WE WANT YOU ALL:
Academic Poets, Famous Poets, Free Form Poets, Street Poets, Unknown Poets, Spoken Word Poets, Published Poets, Unpublished Poets, and more
Poetry Ink is an open, festive, and participatory community event. Please invite your friends and feel free to pass this information along to any other poets that might be interested in participating.
Each reader gets 3 minutes – Readings will be in A to Z by first name – A full day of poetry, food & camaraderie!
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Deadline April 1, 2017
Philly Loves Poetry Festival
Sunday April 17, 2016
2 Marathon Poetry Readings @ noon
20th Annual Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Read – Brandywine Workshop, 728 S. Broad Street
A free, open, festive, participatory community event, a day of poetry, refreshments and camaraderie. We embrace the concept that Poetry is for everyone and takes many forms; therefore we invite academic poets, famous poets, free form poets, street poets, unknown poets, spoken word poets, published poets, unpublished poets and everyone else. Pre-registered poets will read for three minutes in alphabetical order by last name.
Special presentation by Philadelphia Poet Laureate Yolanda Wisher & Youth Poet Laureate David Jones at 2pm
Poetry Ink: The 20th Anniversary Anthology will be released at this event. The Poetry Ink Anthology’s have usually been limited to those who are reading at the annual event but for the 20th Anniversary we are including poems poets who have read at Moonstone events over the last 30 years of Moonstone including such notable poets as John Balaban, Dennis Brutus, Rita Dove, Elaine Equi, Lamont Steptoe, E. Ethelbert Miller, Margaret Randall, Sonia Sanchez, Elaine Terranova, Afaa Weaver, Eleanor Wilner and others.
2016 Poetry Ink Reading Schedule
12 NOON
- Sekai’afua Zankel
- Robert Zaller
- Dave Worrell
- Donna Wolf-Palacio
- Lesley Valdes
- JC Todd
- John Timpane
- Elaine Terranova
12:30 pm
- Susie Taichman-Robins
- Jeanne Sutton
- Lamont B. Steptoe
- Dave Steel
- Catherine Staples
- Elizabeth Stanley
- Mbarek Sryfi
- Christopher Sohnly
1:00 pm
- Amy Small McKinney
- Eric Sellin
- Nina Schafer
- Sally Love Saunders
- Tonya Ryva
- Don Riggs
- Elizabeth Ray
1:30pm
- Aliya T. Randolph
- Elijah B. Pringle, III
- Prabha Prabhu
- James Polymer
- Aaren Yeatts Perry
- Kathryn Pannepacker
- Ewuare X. Osayande
2:00pm
- Yolanda Wisher
- David Jones
- Stu O’Connor
- Thom Nickels
- Katarzyna Newcomer
- Lois Moses
- Shira Moolten
- Abbe Mogell
2:30pm
- Pat McLean
- Christine McKee
- Octavia McBride-Ahebee
- Bernadette McBride
- John Mason
- Angel Martinez
- Alina Macneal
- Sean Lynch
3:00pm
- Julia Lopez
- Elliott Levin
- Lynn Levin
- Jeffrey Ethan Lee
- Hiram Larew
- Nzadi Keita
- Aziza Kebe
- B.E. Kahn
- Beatrice Joyner
3:30pm
- Irving Courtley Jones
- Quincy Scott Jones
- Suzan Jivan
- JAZ
- Leah Jackson
- Jennifer Hook
- Susan Holck
- Lynn Hoffman
- Ditta Baron Hoeber
- Alison Hicks
4:00pm
- Maurice Henderson
- Sean Hanrahan
- Hanoch Guy
- Deidra Greenleaf Allan
- David Gordon
- Brenda Goodis
- Leonard Gontarek
- Ray Garman
- Deborah Fox
4:30pm
- Maria Fama
- Carlos Raul Dufflar
- Pheralyn Dove
- Mary Ann Domanska
- Jarrett J. DeStouet
- Isabella David-McCaffrey
- Eileen M. D’Angelo
5:00pm
- Jim Cory
- Tymber Compher
- Steve Burke
- Jamie Brunson
- Eugene Brown
- Jim Brennan
- Veronica O. Bowlan
- Donna Boston
5:30pm
- Lynn Blue
- Brandon H. Blake
- Pamela Blanding-Godbolt
- Lili Bita
- Leonard Belasco
- Adriann Bautista
- Peter Baroth
- Richard S. Bank
6:00pm
- Catherine Bancroft
- Meredith Avakian-Hardaway
- Natalie Anderson
- Akosua Ali-Sabree
- Karen Abad
3pm –Young Voices – Art Sanctuary, 16th & Bainbridge
All High School and College Students are Invited to Participate
Runs concurrently with Poetry Ink at Brandywine Workshop
Philly Loves Poetry in all its forms, from sonnets to haiku to spoken word and we invite everyone to join in. Poets who pre-registered will read in reverse alphabetical order by last name (Z to A) with each poet having 3 minutes (one long or two short poems) to present. Each 10 pre-registered poets will be followed by 3 open mic participants (who did not have the chance to pre-register) in the same alphabetical sequence.
Special presentation by Philadelphia Poet Laureate
Yolanda Wisher & Youth Poet Laureate David Jones at 3pm
This is a pot luck refreshment event, so bring something good to eat or drink and to share with others