Live Poetry Event with Enoch, Maria Masington & LindoYes

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.

Wednesday December 21 @ 7PM

Event will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudOmtqjMpGNxRsoAGpcUEeIs1nyqctIhI

Enoch is a poet, author, trauma-informed teaching artist and manga writer born and raised on the Northside of Wilmington, DE. As a mental health advocate and someone living with bi-polar disorder, his work examines the process of healing and the ways that trauma and mental health move through a family, as well as the outside forces that affect or have affected these developments. His goal is to create written works, curriculum, and platforms that deepen our emotional understanding and its cyclical relation to the conditions acting on the Black mind, body, and spirit. Enoch is the 2017 Philadelphia Fuze Grand Slam Champion and the author of two poetry collections, “The Guide to Drowning” released in 2017 and “Burned at the Roots” released in 2020.  

Maria Masington is a poet, author, and spoken word artist from Wilmington, Delaware. Her poetry has appeared in over two dozen publications including The News Journal, Gargoyle, The Broadkill Review, Adanna,  Earth’s Daughters, Never Forgotten: 100 Poets Remember 9/11, and by the University of Colorado. Parnilis Media released Masington’s first chapbook, Mouth Like a Sailor, in 2021. It was awarded first place by both Delaware Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. Her work and upcoming events can be found at “Maria Masington Amazon.”  

LindoYes is a spoken word artist, creator of LindoYes! clothing line, and an event host who was born and raised in Uptown Philadelphia, PA. He is an unapologetically Black fusion of theatrical poetics and visual art whose work addresses the constructs of love, masculinity and social injustice. Lindo’s work has led him to opportunities across the east coast from appearing on Def Poetry Jam to featuring at various colleges such as Bucknell University, Haverford College, and UPENN as well as venues including Busboys and Poets, Spit Dat, The Drunken Retort, Urban Grind, just to name a few. His work has been featured in on the well-known poetry youtube channel, Button Poetry. 

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