Live Poetry Event with Elliott batTzedek, Eileen M. D’Angelo, James Feichthaler, Joanne Leva & Robert Zell

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.

Wednesday January 4 @ 7PM

Event will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration required. Register here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlfumgrTIjHdLPYnBWIkzwDwM2mU-lNZGy

Elliott batTzedek holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University. For 10 years she organized readings, writing workshops, and a poetry book group at Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Mt. Airy. Since 2021, she’s organized poetry at Main Point Books in Wayne, PA.  Her work appears in: Sakura Review, American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Cahoodaloodaling, Naugatuck River Review, and Poemeleon.

Eileen M. D’Angelo is Founder of the Mad Poets Society and Mad Poets Review. Since 1987, she produced over 1,500 special events, including performances, slams, readings, conferences, workshops, bonfires and literary festivals in the Delaware Valley.  Twice nominated for a PA Governor’s Award in the Arts, D’Angelo also received two Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press nominations.

James Feichthaler is a poet and essayist whose work has most recently appeared in One Art, Sortes, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and the Mad Poets Society’s Local Lyrics series. His new book The Rise of the COVFEFE, a poetical satire of these divided and uncertain times, was published in late 2020 by Parnilis Media. He is also the host of an open mic reading in Manayunk, PA called The Dead Bards of Philadelphia.

Joanne Leva is the author of Eve Heads Back and Eve Would Know, founder of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and editor-in-chief of Tekpoet, an online poetry manuscript services company. Leva’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Peace Is a Haiku Song, 50 Over Fifty, Apiary, E-Verse Radio, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Rag Queen Periodical, Bucks County Writer, Transcendent Visions, and elsewhere.

Robert Zell has published two chapbooks: One and Reflections. His work has also appeared in Whirlwind magazine, North of Oxford, and several Moonstone Arts anthologies. He is also the host of the First Sunday reading series at the Pen and Pencil Club.