D TED TARNOVSKI Lives in Philadelphia, where he hosts Poems Night, a monthly reading series and open mic, at Little Berlin in Fishtown. SHY WATSON is a poet & painter living in philadelphia, pa. she is the author of AWAY STATUS & my parents were going to give me your name if i […]
Mike Cohen hosts Poetry Aloud and Alive at Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Book Store. Eileen D’Angelo has been nominated for a Pennsylvania Governor’s Award in the Arts and twice for the Pushcart Prize, judged Philadelphia-area poets for Def Poetry Jam. Hiram Larew’s work has appeared in several journals and books including the Washington review, Rhino, Rue Bella, The […]
Participants of the Asian Arts Initiative workshopped on belonging, safety, and identity for (im)migrants in the aftermath of election 2016 and the resurgence of racist, misogynist, and xenophobic forces in the United States. Cynthia Dewi Oka is a poet, immigrant, and author of Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016). A two-time Pushcart […]
Grace Bauer’s most recent book of poems is MEAN/TIME, just published by the University of New Mexico Press. A 20th anniversary re-issue of her ground-breaking collection The Women At The Well was published in 2016 by SFASU Press. Other books include: Nowhere All At Once (winner of the Society of Midland Authors Book of the […]
RuNett Nia Ebo, Poet of Purpose, has been writing poetry since age 10 and she is five decades past that now. Best known for her signature poems, What Did You Make Roaches Fo,’ raps called Look What We Did, Part 1 and 2 and the infamous Lord Why Did You Make Me Black. […]
Alien Architect/Cohen Asher/Devin A. Cohen is a multidisciplinary artist, working with music, visual arts, and poetry. He has published the experimental hip hop album Arteriaand and All Praises, the first part of his seven part book journey entitled Remnants, which chronicles his words from his records, poems, and else wheres Marion Deutsche Cohen’s latest […]
Ryan Eckes is a poet who lives in South Philadelphia and recently finished writing a book called General Motors about labor and the influence of public and private transportation on city life. Melissa DeGezelle has worked as an adjunct in the Intellectual Heritage Program since 2010. Beyond teaching, she is a poet, a birth doula, an activist, […]
There are there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area. They represent every poetry form, ethnic background, age, gender and community. This series consists of a panel of guest poets and artists discussing the opportunities which their group or organization provides for poets in Philly as well as the themes that […]
M. Nzadi Keita is a Philly-born writer, editor, scholar and teacher, author of Brief History of Heaven, She has received grants from the PCA and the Leeway Foundation, is an alumna of Cave Canem and has been a Yaddo fellow. She has also worked on projects with the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and WHYY. Cassie MacDonald serves […]
Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems by Ona Gritz & Daniel Simpson ($14.99, August 2017) The poems in Border Songs offer more than a conversation between poets: they’re conversant, knowledgeable, informed by eros, loss, delight, curiosity, and intimate wisdom. This collection stays long after you’ve stopped reading to meditate alone about body and soul. –Stephen Kuusisto Ona Gritz’s first […]
