Grace Bauer’s full-length collections of poetry include The Women at The Well, Beholding Eye, and Retreats and Recognitions. Her awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize and the Nebraska Arts Council. Lynn Levin is a 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in poetry and the author of Birds on the Kiswar Tree, a […]
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 […]
Featuring Liliana Velásquez, author of Dreams and Nightmares/ Sueños y Pesadillas, a remarkable memoir by a teenager who at fourteen years old fled horrific violence and poverty in Guatemala and headed out alone for the United States. On her trip through Mexico she was robbed by narcos, rode the boxcars of La Bestia, and organized […]
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 […]
Andrew Keller has been active in the DIY music scene since 2007. He has toured with the bands Hermit Thrushes, Snow Caps, Jonagold, Folklore, Evil Sword, and Glover. Keller also spent around ten years as Senior Editor of local lit mag Painted Bride Quarterly before leaving last year. Harmon Butcher was born in rural East […]
For some strange reason, we tend to wait until someone dies before we express our gratitude for what they have done. Why Wait? Join us in honoring Leonard Gontarek through a reading of praise poems as well as his own work. 50 Poets have responded with poems and comments to honor Leonard Gontarek 20 of […]
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 […]
Laura Spagnoli (& Baby) is a poet and fiction writer inspired by the Broad Street subway line, direct mail advertising, constellations you can see from the city, and parrots. Her poems have appeared in the Apiary, E. Pluribus Unum, and one of her stories was published in the 2010 collection Philadelphia Noir. Ernest Hilbert’s (& […]
Fran Baird received the Judson Jerome Poetry Scholarship, his poem “Neshaminy” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He currently conducts a poetry workshop with inmates at Graterford Prison. Cassie MacDonald serves as Hearthkeeper of Brigid’s House in Camden where she facilitates a writing circle and creates neighborhood murals as part of the Poetry Liberation Front […]
