Marion Deutsche Cohen, Paige Menton, & Aaron Poochigian

Wednesday, August 23, 2023 @ 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street)

And on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrf-6qpjIvGtNxsmbaYlsKYyf_iEJ2zGlM

Marion Deutsche Cohen is known for poetry and memoir on three topics: spousal chronic illness, late pregnancy loss, and math. She is the author of 33 books; her newest poetry collection is Disturbing Shapes and her latest prose collection is Not Erma Bombeck: Diary of a Feminist 70s Mother. This year, her work has been included in six anthologies. She teaches a course she developed, Mathematics in Literature, at Drexel University’s Honors College.

Paige Menton, author of Wrim and Twenty Miles to April lives outside of Philadelphia where she runs a land restoration organization called Journeywork and cares for the land of a Quaker meeting. She is a poet, gardener, and teacher of writing and environmental education, has led writing workshops for homeschoolers for the past fifteen years, has taught children how to garden and publishes a journal of environmental writing and art for young people called Planet A. A mixture of Socratic method and Zen koan, Wrim’s erasure poetics models the participatory learning essential to national and global health.

Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including the thrillers-in-verse, Mr. Either/Or and its sequel, Mr. Either/Or: All the Rage. His work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, The Paris Review and POETRY.

Larry Robin Host, Open Reading Follows