Live Poetry Event with Peter Baroth, Massimo Elijah & Glen A. Mazis

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.

Wednesday January 11 @ 7PM

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

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuc-qtrT0rGNUpSm6pNoX_JoJ016NR2VAU

Peter Baroth, writer, artist, and musician, is a graduate of Washington University and Temple Law School. His novel is Long Green (iUniverse) and his book of poetry, Lost Autographs (Moonstone Press). He has been published in Philadelphia Poets, Red Fez, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Apiary, Legal Studies Forum, Poetry Ink, and elsewhere. He won the 2009 Amy Tritsch Needle Award, a 2016 Petracca Family Award, was a finalist for the Joie de Vivre book prize, has been nominated for Best of the Net, and is on Philadelphia Stories’ editorial board. He lives in Media, PA.

Massimo Elijah is a spoken word poet and Philly native who is proud to be a part of such a thriving arts scene in his home city. He loves how art can give people freedom of expression as well as a common ground for coming together…where artist and audience remind each other how human beings are healers who are also healed by healing others.

Glen A. Mazis has more than 90 poems in literary journals, including Rosebud, The North American Review, Sou’wester, Spoon River Poetry Review, Willow Review, Atlanta Review, Reed Magazine and Asheville Poetry Review, and the collection, The River Bends in Time, a chapbook, The Body Is a Dancing Star, and Bodies of Space and Time. He taught philosophy for decades at Penn State Harrisburg, has published five philosophy books with the most recent being, Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence, Ethics, Imagination and Poetic Ontology. He is the 2019 winner of the Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize.

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