Live Poetry: Kate Carey, M. Elizabeth Hershey, & Miriam Kramer

Wednesday July 17, 2024 – 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom

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Kate Carey (she/her) is a fat queer polyamorous slut who sometimes spends whole days in bed crying because feelings are hard. Through deeply personal poetry and creative nonfiction, she touches on issues relating to trauma, fat liberation, mental illness and sexuality. December 2022’s Hot Poet in the Bullshit Lit x Olney magazine Hot Poets calendar and producer of Philadelphia’s Slutty Poems Night, you can find more about her & her work at https://www.katemcarey.com.

M. Elizabeth Hershey is a writer and artist based out of South Philadelphia where she has lived off and on for the last 20 years (but would never purport to be from Philly). She graduated from Brown University with a degree in Visual Arts where she cross-studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has published one chapbook, Look to the North and continues to write both poetry and prose in memoir form. Hershey grew up performing Shakespeare, reading V.C. Andrews in the dark, and worshipping the fellow Hoosier Kurt Vonnegut. She is a photographer by trade, loves a good Phillies game and has an active appreciation of jazz and blues music. Her most recent work centers around the ideas of addiction, grief, and the befuddling life of Tinder dates as one approaches middle age.”

Miriam Kramer is a queer, Jewish poet residing in New Jersey with her partner, daughter, and two cats. She majored in Creative Writing at Pacific University and currently works at an educational nonprofit. She was the winner of the 2023 Jack McCarthy Book Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Variant Literature, So to Speak Journal, FreezeRay Poetry, and others. She is the author of three chapbooks. Her debut full length collection, Built by Storms, was published by Write Bloody Publishing and nominated for The Lambda Literary Prize and The New Writers Award, Great Lakes College Association.

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