Patrick Rosal, is the author of four books of poetry and the recipient of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Research Scholar Program. Sami Miranda is a teacher, poet and visual artist. He […]
Marion Cohen’s 28th book is “The Discontinuity at the Waistline: My #MeToo Poems” (Rhythm & Bones Press, 2019), and her 29th is “The Fuss and the Fury” (Alien Buddha Press, NM, 2019.) Chanda Rice (also known as Muffy) has been a writer all her life, but her half-sister would expose her children […]
Original poetry by the Russian-American poet Olga Livshin, alongside her translations of Russian poetry by Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) and Vladimir Gandelsman (b. 1948). Foreword by Ilya Kaminsky. “Olga Livshin has braided her own poems with her superb translations of Akhmatova and Gandelsman, poets she describes as “ecstatic voices.” Livshin’s voice, too, is ecstatic–and unflinching, and […]
Michael B. Carroll Jr. is a graduate of West Chester University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Professional Studies (Health Science / Psychology dual minor). He is a native of Philadelphia, PA and has published creative work in The Esthetic Apostle Literary Magazine. Dr. Mbarek Sryfi is lecturer at the University […]
The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us. Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. David Acosta is the Artistic Director of Casa De Duende. His poetry has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies. Among the most notable are […]
Sean Lynch is a leftist poet and editor who lives in South Philly. His poems have been published in various journals and he is the author of four chapbooks. Joseph Rathgeber is an author and poet from New Jersey. He is author of Mixedbloods and The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R. and Other Stories. […]
Walt Whitman was born 200 years ago (May 31, 1819), his life coincided with a time of great division in America—the Civil War. Whitman eulogized the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in “O Captain! My Captain!”, a moment in history marked by hatred and bloodshed. His poem “The Wound Dresser” described the job of a first […]
Michael R. Brown has five books of poetry and has performed poetry, taught classes, and lectured in various world venues from the Stockholm to South Korea. Instrumental in bringing the poetry slam to New England, he created both the Cantab weekly series and the theatrical show Dr. Brown’s Traveling Poetry Circus. W. D. Ehrhart […]
Julia Blumenreich is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council grant for her poetry and was a finalist for the 2016 Brittany Noakes Poetry Award. In 2012, she collaborated with the visual artist, Wendy Osterweil, on ‘Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott’ a poetry/sculptural installation/print show at The Painted Bride Art Center. Charles Carr […]
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: […]
