Live Poetry Reading with Sydney Hunt Coffin, Naa Koikoi Aziza Zenzile, and Alina Macneal

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Sydney Hunt Coffin has been with the Philadelphia Writing Project since 2011, when he was working as an English teacher at University City High School. He has taught English, Poetry, and Art for 20 years in Philadelphia, spending summers working and studying at Yale University and has served on the Teacher Advisory Council of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As a poet he has been published in Mad House Press, Apiary magazine, and Yale University Press, and is currently an MFA student at New York University in Paris.

Naa Koikoi Aziza Zenzile Kebe (After the Queen, Precious, One Who Controls Her Destiny) is a Multimedia Artist, Activist, Griot, Public Servant, and Citizen of the World who utilizes her artform to uplift her culture, promote Black Womanhood in a positive light, and cultivate a consciousness receptive to social and political change. Her poetry has also been included in Hair Stories, Now Anthology, Poetry Ink, Howard University’s Amistad Literary Journal, Poetry Ink Tenth Anniversary, The Apiary, Versadelphia, E Pluribus Unum: An Anthology of Diverse Voices, For Women: In Tribute to Nina Simone, and Philly Jawns, For Women Revisited as well as, other publications worldwide

Alina Macneal is a Philadelphia-based educator/writer/poet/translator/architect and co-host of the Fourth Wednesday Moonstone poetry series at Fergie’s.  Her poems have appeared in Apiary, Poems for the Writing, The World to Come, and Poetry 24.  In 2015 she was a finalist for the Raynes poetry prize.  She has been a member of the faculty at Drexel University for over 20 years.  Since the last presidential election Alina has been translating the 1930’s political poems of the Polish poet, Julian Tuwim.  As Mark Twain said, History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.