Lamont Steptoe with Aaren Yeatts Perry and Quincy Scott Jones

Tuesday March 12, 2013, 7pm
Lamont Steptoe with Aaren Yeatts Perry and Quincy Scott Jones

Moonstone Mentor & Mentored Series @ PhillyCAM Studio – 699 Ranstead Street (between Chestnut and Market)

Lamont B. Steptoe,author of Meditations in “Congo Square”, was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. He is the author and/or editor of fifteen poetry collections, the latest of which is Meditations in Congo Square, and publish/founder of Whirlwind Press. He is the winner of an American Book Award and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Aaren Yeatts Perry has performed his poems at the Nuyorican, Kimmel Center, World Café, Fringe Festival, Kelly Writers House and the Philadelphia Writers Conference along with countless stages and classrooms across America. Quincy Scott Jones earned his Bachelor’s degree from Brown University, Master’s degree from Temple University, and $100 once working as supermarket clown. His work has appeared in such anthologies as Heroics, From Where We Sit: Black Writers Write Black Youth and Let Loose on the World: Celebrating Amiri Baraka at 75.