Zoom Meeting ID: 849 0497 4839, Passcode: 570429, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84904974839?pwd=U0lZb3JuOFlvRlUya1VjSlRTblBWdz09 Nzadi Keita, a Philly-born writer, editor, and scholar, is a 2017 Pew Fellow for the Arts in Poetry. Her book of persona poems, BRIEF EVIDENCE OF HEAVEN, gives voice to abolitionist Anna Murray Douglass, first wife of Frederick Douglass. Cited by Yale historian […]
Zoom Meeting ID: 851 0353 5295, Passcode: 610782, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85103535295?pwd=dSt2MXRkNGdKU0Jkb3BCUE9sNVNtQT09 Cynthia Arrieu-King teaches creative writing, literature, and general studies. Her poetry books include People are Tiny in Paintings of China, Manifest, and Futureless Languages. Her poetry book Continuity is forthcoming from Octopus Books and her book of experimental memoir The Betweens is forthcoming from Noemi in 2021. Praise Osawaru […]
699 Ranstead Street. Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia 2020-2021 Philadelphia Poet Laureate on the role of the Laureate in promoting the love of poetry in the City and communities. Trapeta B. Mayson is the 2020-2021 Philadelphia Poet Laureate. She is a recipient of a Pew Fellowship in Literature, Leeway Transformation Award, […]
Zoom Meeting ID: 824 4272 1486, Passcode: 319164, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82442721486?pwd=c01zbVFCQkw3TmtQUlVUaXNwWGpKZz09 Book of Micah – Kenneth Pobo Kenneth Pobo teaches Creative Writing and English at Widener University near Philadelphia. He and his husband live in Media. He began writing poetry in 1970 at the age of fifteen. He likes doing character studies in poetry […]
Zoom Meeting ID: 836 1745 1559, Passcode: 749356, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83617451559?pwd=TGliZFF4dXZzamZOaGJreHVQbzBJdz09 Antonio López received a double B.A. in Global Cultural Studies and African & African-American studies from Duke University, scholarships to attend the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Tin House, the Vermont Studio Center, and Bread Loaf. He is a proud member of the […]
Zoom Meeting ID: 828 6011 8796 Passcode: 045261 Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82860118796?pwd=L3V5OUwwMDd3SzdZVk9IUlRMaXN4UT09 Generous, empathetic, and deftly observant, these poems leave an afterglow, each one small candle guiding us through the forest of so much we don’t know. – Leslie Ullman, author of Library Of Small Happiness and Progress on the Subject of Immensity Laura (Behr) Baird has […]
Zoom Meeting ID: 884 1011 7845, Passcode: 035824, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88410117845?pwd=SDJkQWxreFJLbnc2MjROTUZlTXlXdz09 Indran Amirthanayagam, writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole, has published 19 poetry collections and recorded a spoken word album Rankont Dout, edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly. He has won the Paterson Poetry Prize. His new books are The Migrant States, […]
Zoom Meeting ID: 824 3643 5017 Passcode: 758900 Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82436435017?pwd=OWo1WWtscVBvYXlyTW9DakFHcGdsQT09 Marion Deutsche Cohen is the author of 32 collections of poetry or memoir; her newest book is “Not Erma Bombeck: Diary of a Feminist 70s Mother” and her latest poetry collections are “The Essence of Seventh Grade: A Kind of Autobiography” and “The […]
Zoom Meeting ID: 867 1393 7746, Passcode: 569861, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86713937746?pwd=V3BvYkpnYUJhK0lqZ3d0UUNpNEhZdz09 New Voices feature poets under the age of 25 who have much to say and we believe they should be heard. We are excited to be a part of this community of young writers through readings and publications. I think it’s fair to […]
Zoom Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 Sarah Browning is the author of Killing Summer and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden. She is co-founder and for 10 years was Executive Director of Split This Rock: Poems of Provocation & Witness. She is recipient of the Lillian E. Smith Writer-in-Service […]
