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Alicia Askenase is the author of four chapbooks, including The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press) and Shirley Shirley (sonaweb). Her poetry has appeared in many lit journals, including: Chain#2 and #11, Poetry New York, The World, 6ix, Feminist Studies, Big Bridge, The Journal of Modern Languages, and the Manhattanville Review. Recent writing is published in the anthologies New Works by Philadelphia Poets, Remembering Walt Whitman, and Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets, Second Edition, edited by Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin, and the most recent edition of The Painted Bride Quarterly.

Mike Cohen is author of Between the I’s and Between the Shadow and the Wall and he hosts Poetry Aloud and Alive at Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Book Store. His articles on sculpture regularly appear in the Schuylkill Valley Journal in which he is a contributing editor.  His wry writing has appeared in the Mad Poets Review, Fox Chase Review, and other journals. His poetic presentations feature humor and drama against a philosophical backdrop. Mike likes to bring poetry and audiences to life in cafes, libraries, book stores and venues including Princeton’s Café Improv, the Pen and Pencil Club, the Hedgerow Theatre, Fergie’s Pub, Harlem’s Apollo Theater, and neither least nor last, Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts

Open reading follows