Live Poetry Reading: Nathalie Anderson & Herman Beavers

Wednesday June 22, 2022 – 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub

1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvdeuvpjIuG9I1jgckykQGy4BbPanE4irb

Nathalie Anderson’s books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound.  She collaborated in 2021 with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America, and her new book, Rough, is forthcoming in 2024 from The Word Works.  Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, Nimrod, and Plume.  She manages the list-serv Lit-Philly that informs about 500 members about literary events in the Philadelphia area.  A 1993 Pew Fellow, she has recently retired from Swarthmore College, where she taught for 39 years, and served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing.

Herman Beavers Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania , where he’s taught since 1989.  Professor Beavers teaches a section of the intermediate poetry workshop in the Creative Writing Program, “August Wilson and Beyond,” which brings Penn students together with West Philadelphia residents together to read August Wilson’s 20^th Century Cycle. Professor Beavers latest books are Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison, and The Vernell Poems. His poems are anthologized in Obsession: Sestinas for the Twenty-First Century, Remembering Gwen, Who Will Speak for America, and Show Us Your Papers.  He serves on the Advisory Boards of The Furious Flower Poetry Center, Modern Fiction Studies, The Black Scholar, The Langston Hughes Review, and African American Review. 

With hosts Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook. Open Reading Follows.