Book Release Party for John Wall Barger’s “Resurrection Fail”

Featuring readings from Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Ernest Hilbert, Warren C Longmire, Glorious Piner, Luke Stromberg, hosted by Fayyaz Vellani

1214 Sansom Street and on zoom

Register for the Zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86880897372?pwd=WXhNc3NSREpLZnZrQnpSQmp0cDNQZz09

 

John Wall Barger is the author of Pain-proof Men; Hummingbird; The Book of Festus; The Mean Game and Resurrection Fail. He is a contract editor for Frontenac House, and teaches at UARTS. 

 

 

 

 

Savannah Cooper-Ramsey is the author of the artist book Not Fit for Print, winner of BOMB Magazine’s 2018 Biennial Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2018 Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Award.

 

 

 

 

 

Ernest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan—selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize—and Last One Out, he works as a rare book dealer and book critic for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. 

 

 

 

 

Warren C Longmire is a writer, software engineer and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. His writing has been published in American Poetry Review, Eleven Eleven, The Painted Bride Quarterly and in the upcoming Best American Poetry Anthology of 2021. 

 

 

 

 

Glorious Piner teaches Poetry at the University of Maryland and at the University of the Arts, published in Queerbook, The American Poetry Review, The Florida Review, Conduit Magazine, and more.

 

 

 

 

Luke Stromberg’s poetry and criticism have appeared in Smartish Pace, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Golidad Review, Think Journal, and others, he is Associate Poetry Editor of E-Verse Radio. 

 

 

 

 

HOST: Fayyaz Vellani is a British-Canadian writer who has lived in London, New York, and Philadelphia, where he teaches writing at the University of Pennsylvania.  His first novel Tea with Ms. Tanzania will be published by Africa World Press in 2022.