Live Poetry with Aaren Perry & Lamont B. Steptoe

Wednesday July 27, 2022 – 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub

1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom –

Registration Required for Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsduurqzwiHtCYbzMsMPYIsGE7cAX8Oinl

Aaren Perry’s new book is Shipping and Receiving, published by Moonstone. Bilingual with an MFA from Vermont College, he recently edited a forthcoming collection of new poems by Lamont B. Steptoe. He co-edited with Dr. James Villarreal, Under Lock and Key: 100 Poems From Death Row, by Anthony Reid, an ebook out now on Amazon. Perry runs Yeatts Perry Consulting, grants and donor management for health equity and social change nonprofits.

Lamont B. Steptoe was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Steptoe is a father, grandfather, and Vietnam veteran. A graduate of Temple University majoring in Radio, Television and Film, Steptoe is the author of sixteen collections of poetry among which include, Crimson River, Mad Minute, Uncle’s South China Sea Blue Nightmare, A Long Movie of Shadows, Crowns and Halos, and Meditations in Congo Square. Steptoe’s work appears in over one hundred anthologies among which are the Oxford University Press Anthology of African American Literature. Steptoe is the winner of an American Book Award, Pew Fellow in the Arts, and two Pennsylvania Council on Arts Awards. His forthcoming collection is Woke! Soon to be published by Whirlwind Press.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts,

Open Reading Follows