James Arthur, a Canadian-American poet, is the author of The Suicide’s Son and Charms Against Lightning. Arthur lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. George David Clark’s Reveille received the 2015 Miller Williams Prize, he teaches creative writing at Washington & Jefferson College and lives in western Pennsylvania. Trapeta […]
Zoom Meeting ID: 821 6127 0135 – Zoom Passcode: 960363 – Phone: 1-646-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82161270135?pwd=aDVLWlcxWmFsMTNwNjR1L3lEZXV1QT09 Sandra Turner-Barnes is an author, poet, and jazz lover and vocalist. Her first book of poetry Always A Lady has sold over 7,000 copies. In 1996, Sandra won the EBONY MAGAZINE Literary Competition for Short Fiction, and in 1997, Sandra re-created […]
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia Please join us as 2020-2021 Philadelphia Poet Laureate Trapeta B. Mayson discusses 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. […]
Zoom Meeting ID: 818 3720 4326, Zoom Passcode: 100371, Phone: 1-646-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81837204326?pwd=VzBwOVFVZHNjckMrNzVCU1loOVBpZz09 On the Verge: Poets of the Palisades III is an anthology that consists of 80 contributors in the Tri-State who were featured over a four-year period from both series that are sponsored by the North Jersey Literary Community and hosted by Denise La Neve […]
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: 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 […]
