Live Poetry: Michelle Myers, Therese Halscheid, Hector Reyes & Karol M. Wasylyshyn

Wednesday, September 30th @ 7pm

Fergies Pub: 1412 Sansom St. Philadelphia

Michelle Myers is an award-winning poet, author, and educator whose work centers storytelling, cultural memory, and voice. A founding member of the Asian American spoken word poetry group Yellow Rage, she was among the first Asian American women featured on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. Her work appears in numerous anthologies and outlets, including USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Smithsonian Channel. Michelle is also an award-winning educator and the faculty coordinator and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated series Drop the Mic. She hosts the podcast Mind Your Margins, produced by her daughter, Myong.

She received a 2024 Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for her middle-grade novel Talk Me a Story about Moon Rabbit. Michelle was commissioned by the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles to write a poem for its exhibition (Be) Spoken.

Therese Halscheid is author of 5 poetry collections, the most recent Frozen Latitudes. Her poetry and lyric essays have appeared in several magazines, among them Tampa Review, Gettysburg Review, Columbia Journal, Hawai’i Pacific Review. She holds an MA and MFA and teaches for Atlantic Cape College as well as offering workshops for conferences, organizations and other writing venues. For many years she has been a house-sitter, as to write in unusual locations. Her photography chronicles her journey and has been in juried exhibitions.

Hector Reyes is a first gen Dominican-American South Bronx native living in Philly completing his 5 year medical residency who’s writing is charged by the emotions of the moment, love, longing, freedom, and the blissful wrath of being alone in his own head for too damn long.

Karol M. Wasylyshyn is widely published in the field of consulting psychology and has published volumes of poetry (Standing on Marbles and Escaping the Corner) focused on business leaders. Her poems appear in Forge, The Write Room, Curium, The Medulla Review, Spillway, Lullwater Review, Visions International, River Sedge, Nimrod Int’l Journal, Milk Money, and The Alembic. In the wake of her husband’s death in 2024, she edited a collection of his grammar columns in a book entitled The Queen’s English and is now working on a series of illustrated grief poems.

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