Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Wednesday March 13, 2019 – 7pm
Fran Baird

Fran Baird studied with David Ignatow in the 1980s and more recently at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop with Cathy Smith Bowers, John Drury and Jamey Dunham. He was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2009 for his poem “Neshaminy,” published in the Schuylkill Valley Journal. He currently studies with poet Leonard Gontarek as a member of the Osage Avenue Poets. As an adjunct professor he has taught social work and psychology at LaSalle University and criminal justice at West Chester University. He has been conducting a weekly and on-going poetry workshop at Phoenix (formerly Graterford) Prison for the last 2 years with long-term, incarcerated men, co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Prison Literacy Project and Lifers, Inc. In the winter edition 2017, the Schuylkill Valley Journal published 10 poems by 5 individuals from the workshop. His first chapbook, Painting With My Father, has been published by Finishing Line Press.

Dave Worrell, Host, Open Reading follows

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