2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street Did you know that there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area? They represent every poetry form, every ethnic background, every age, gender and community. This series ll consist of an interview with the directors of these groups […]
Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, a fitful Philadelphian who likes to make things (often poems), is the author of “The Self, it’s nothing personal”, the first of two chapbook projects forthcoming with Waterhouse Ltd. Her work has also been published in Whirlwind Magazine Lillian Dunn studied community literary projects in Argentina as a Fulbright scholar before moving to […]
Panio Gianopoulos is the author of the story collection, How to Get into Our House and Where We Keep the Money and the novella, A Familiar Beast. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Tin House, Northwest Review, Salon, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Big Fiction, and elsewhere. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for nonfiction literature, […]
Megan Gillespie is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Florida Review, New Delta Review and Cimarron Review. Aubrey Rehab is the founder of South Jersey Poets Collective and hosts ‘World Above: Free Poetry Nights’ at Dante Hall in […]
Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph over Democracy by Corey Dolgon ($34.95 -University of Chicago Press) Books will be available to purchase and be autographed “To understand the popularity of Italian Fascism in the ’30s, we needed Antonio Gramsci. To understand the popular malaise among the US middle class in the […]
Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse by Grace Bauer, Editor ($24.00, Lost Horse Press) Poets reading include Grace Bauer, Kim Bridgeford, Emari DiGiorgio, Corie Feiner, Ona Gritz, Harriet Levin, Lynn Levin, Carolina Morales & Nancy Reddy – Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse is an anthology of poems from women […]
Christopher Bernard is author of A Spy in the Ruins, Voyage to a Phantom City, Dangerous Stories for Boys and others. He is co-editor of Caveat Lector and a regular contributor to Synchronized Chaos. Bernard writes fiction, poetry, essays, plays, and criticism.. He lives in San Francisco. Luke Stromberg has published work in Rotary Dial, Victorian Violet Journal, Tower Journal, Shot Glass […]
Shevaun Brannigan is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, as well as The Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House at The University of Maryland. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Best New Poets 2012, Rhino, Washington Square Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Jamie J. Brunson has brought storytelling to the stage within […]
John Amen is the author of several collections of poetry, the latest of which is Illusion of an Overwhelm. strange theater was a finalist for the 2016 Brockman-Campbell Award and work from which was chosen as a finalist for the 2016 Dana Award. His poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in journals nationally and […]
Eliza Callard is a Philly gal, and still lives in the Germantown rowhouse she grew up in. She likes to run in the Wissahickon and kayak in the Schuylkill, she has been published widely. Lucy Bell Sellers lives in Germantown, taught theatre at Germantown Friends and at College of the Atlantic. She has written poetry […]
