Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage: Poems and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water. Her work has appeared in ESPNW, Hyperallergic, Guernica, Scoundrel Time, Academy of American Poets, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. Eleanor Wilner will be reading from her new collection, Before Our Eyes: […]
Theodore A. Harris is a collagist, poet, and has co-authored books with Amiri Baraka, Our Flesh of Flames, and Malcolm X as Ideology, with Fred Moten, i ran from it and was still in it and TRIPTYCH: Text by Amiri Baraka and Jack Hirschman. Our Flesh of Flames “Posed against an eerily iridescent orange sky,” […]
A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Though Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon’s thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and humanity to the chickadee, the house wren, the deaths of Leonard Cohen and C. […]
Hail to the Symptom Gloria Heffernan is the author of the poetry collection, What the Gratitude List Said to the Bucket List (forthcoming from New York Quarterly Books), and the chapbook, Some of Our Parts, (Finishing Line Press, 2018), and Hail to the Symptom. Her work has appeared in over fifty journals including Chautauqua Literary […]
Amanda Auerbach is author of What Need Have We For Such as We, her poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and other journals. In What Need Have We For Such as We, the speaker quickly transitions from being a lyrical poet to being a person infected by a poetic voice that, like […]
2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCAM. Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us. Catherine Bancroft, artist and writer, has shown at Muse Gallery, Third Street Gallery, […]
Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM 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 […]
Charles S. Carr is author of paradise, pennsylvania, and Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems. He has worked in social and community development services for 45 years. Charles was The Mad Poets Review First Prize Winner for his poem “Waiting To Come North”. Charles was the host of the Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub and […]
Herman Beavers is Professor of English and Africana Studies at the U of P, where he teaches courses in African American literature and Creative Writing. He is the author of two scholarly monographs: Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James A. McPherson and Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of […]
John Wall Barger is the author of The Mean Game, The Book of Festus, Hummingbird and Pain-proof Men, Dying in Dharamsala, Samovar / Dukkha, and The Vnfortunate Report & Tragicall Tidings of Leslie Barger. Barger has been shortlisted for the Montreal Poetry Prize twice, has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry and Best of the Best […]
