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Virtual Poetry Reading in Collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Vasiliki Katsarou, David Livewell, Tamara Oakman, with John Wall Barger

December 9, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09

Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923

Vasiliki Katsarou is the author of the poetry collection Memento Tsunami, and the chapbook, Three Sea Stones, published this year by Lucia Press. She is also co-editor of two contemporary poetry anthologies: Eating Her Wedding Dress and Dark as a Hazel Eye (Ragged Sky Press, Princeton). Her award-winning 35mm short film Fruitlands 1843 has been screened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Harvard Film Archive, the Angelika Film Center, and the Drama Film Festival in Greece. A new digitized version of the film is forthcoming. Vasiliki is a teaching artist at Hunterdon Art Museum, and a Geraldine R. Dodge Poet in New Jersey.

David Livewell grew up in the Kensington section of North Philadelphia.  He has taught poetry courses at La Salle University.  He won the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for his book, Shackamaxon (Truman State University Press).  His poems have appeared in Poetry, Threepenny Review, Yale Review, The Hopkins ReviewThe Hudson ReviewSouthwest Review, and other journals.

Tamara Oakman is a neo-confessional writer, English, writing, ESL and humanities professor, with work published in Many Mountains Moving, Philadelphia Stories and Best of Anthology, Mad Poets Review, Certain Circuits Magazine, Fox Chase Review and other online and in print magazines. She has awards in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama, and performs poetry and fiction in Philadelphia and the surrounding tri-state areas. Tamara is an event coordinator who has hosted, created and organized events, series, writing workshops and festivals in Philadelphia and has judged the Hidden River Arts fiction and drama contest, the Philadelphia Writer’s Conference poetry contest, the Montgomery County Poet Laureate poetry contest and Ursinis College’s Dolman Prize . She is co-founder and internship coordinator for APIARY magazine.

John Wall Barger, Host

Open reading follows