Anna Prader, Jonathan Todd, & Leonard Gontarek

Wednesday November 8, 2023 @ 7PM

Live at Fergie’s Pub @1214 Sansom St. 

1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom

On Zoom (Registration required):

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Anna Prader lives and writes in Philadelphia with her three children. She believes in poetry that betrays codes of social decency and tells the truth instead. She works in harm reduction and peer support, and she would like to take a nap.

Jonathan Todd is a poet/musician/Buddhist/anarchist and generally confused individual. His poems attempt to find moments between and within labor, fusing ideas about emptiness, collectivity, and absurdity. His work has been featured in Prolit and Protean Magazine among others.

Leonard Gontarek is the author of The Long Way Home; Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket, Shiva; and The Paris Poems of Jim Morrison. His poems have appeared in Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry and The Best American Poetry. His poem, 37 Photos From The Bridge, selected by Alice Quinn, was a Poetry winner for the Big Bridges MotionPoems project and the basis for the award-winning film sponsored by the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.

Thirty-Seven Photos from the Bridge by Leonard Gontarek