Lisa Grunberger, Diane Sahms, Dr Patrick James Errington, and Joseph Thomas Makoviecki

Wednesday October 4 @ 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom Street

On Zoom (Registration required):

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Lisa Grunberger has published two books – a collection of poetry, Born Knowing and Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Position, which she is adapting as a stage performance called Yiddish Yoga: The Musical. She is a widely published poet in such journals as Mudfish, The Drunken Boat, Bridges, Philadelphia Poets, Paroles des Jours, and Dialogi. Her poems have also been translated into Russian and Yiddish. Her one-woman show, A Prayer Collector, premiered at the Makor Center for the Arts/92 St Y.

Diane Sahms, a native Philadelphian, is the author of  six poetry collections: Images of Being (Stone Garden Publishing, 2011), Lights Battered Edge (Anaphora Literary Press, 2015), and Night Sweat (Red Dashboard Press, 2016), Handheld Mirror of the Mind, (Kelsay Books, 2018); Covid 19 2020 – A Poetic Journal (Moonstone Press, 2021); most recently City of Shadow & Light (Philadelphia) – Alien Buddha Press. Her poems have appeared in a number of online and print publications.   Diane is the Poetry Editor at North of Oxford and works as a purchasing agent.

Dr Patrick James Errington is a poet, translator, critic, editor, and academic from the prairies of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks Glean (ignitionpress, 2018) and Field Studies (Clutag Press, 2019) and the poetry collection the swailing (McGill-Queens University Press). He is a Lecturer in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, where he teaches literature and creative writing and is also the primary and co-investigator on several interdisciplinary research projects.

Joseph Thomas Makoviecki is a poet and the singer-songwriter in the indie folk band Jackson Pines. Born in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, Joseph has lived in New York City and Philadelphia while traveling America, the UK, and Ireland performing as a musician. hornpipe & other poems was written as a recipient of the 2021 Tory Dent Research Scholarship at New York University. His work has appeared in The Rational Creature, Soupcan Magazine, Oddball Magazine, and more.