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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading in Collaboration with Serotonin: Lexi Locket\, Warren Longmire\, Basil Wright\, with Sean Lynch
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815  Passcode: 838862 – Phone:  1-646 876 9923 US (New York) \nLexi Locket is a creative in Phoenix\, AZ. She enjoys the art of storytelling through poetry\, prose\, music\, and performance art. When not creating\, Lexi works as a music therapist in the mental health field. Lexi also enjoys playing roller derby\, spending time with her family and friends\, and raising her fur babies. She self-published her first chapbook\, ‘The After Life’\, in the fall of 2019\, and has been featured in Tealight Press and has work forthcoming in the All Female Menu Zine. She can be found on Twitter @punkiepie394 and on Instagram @poetrywithlexi \n  \n  \nWarren Longmire is the co-founder of the Excelano Project Spoken Word Collective and the former Director of Poetry Events for Blue Stoop. He’s been published in journals including American Poetry Review\, Eleven Eleven\, Graviton and The Painted Bride Quarterly. He is featured in the Best American Poetry 2021 anthology and will release his first full collection with Radiator Press this fall. You can find his writings\, musings and selfies on instagram @alongmirewriter. \n  \n  \nBasil Wright is a Black and Indigenous autistic queer writer that lives in Florida with their sibling. Their work has appeared in Perhappened Mag\, The Daily Drunk Mag\, and Disability Madison’s Black and Disabled Virtual Showcase. \n  \n  \n  \n                                                Sean Lynch\, Host
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Hermond Palmer\, Cherise A. Pollard\, Leena Taylor\, with Sean Hanahan
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737   Passcode: 678146   Phone: 1 646 876 9923 US (New York) \n \nHermond Palmer is a poet\, author and song writer who has performed his work at spoken-word venues in and around Harlem\, Philadelphia\, and Washington D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He has published three books of poetry; Echoes from the Quiet that I Keep\, Words to Fill the Light in You\, and What the Ancestors Told Me and I Decided to Listen. He has a Chapbook of Love poems entitled Aquarian Love Poems forthcoming from Moonstone Publishing in 2021 and he is currently wrapping up his first book of fiction\, entitled Road Kings. \n  \n  \n \nCherise A. Pollard\, Ph.D.\, is Professor of English and Director of the Poetry Center at West Chester University of PA.  A Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow\, Pollard was awarded a grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her work has a in several journals including 5 AM\, Affilia: The Journal of Women in Social Work\, African American Review\, Connotations Press\, The Healing Muse\, The Mom Egg\, The Pittsburgh Poetry Review\, PoemMemoirStory\, and Rattle. Her poem\, “Sugar Babe” was a Finalist for the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. Her chapbook\, Outsiders\, was chosen by C.M. Burroughs as the winner of the 2015 Susan K. Collins/Mississippi Valley Chapbook Contest sponsored by the Midwest Writing Center. \n  \n \nLeena Taylor spent her formative years in northeast Philadelphia. Leena exists at the crossroads of multiple sometimes conflicting cultures. Her poetry is an expression of a women that is often overlooked in America she is black she is Muslim she is women in a place that can hardly understand the nuances of one of those identities. As a caregiver\, Leena loves amplifying the voice of those othered by society and writes with the intention of giving a home to women who are often omitted from the narrative of America. Her debut chapbook is available at https://www.tohopub.com/product-page/they-shot-anyway. \n  \n  \nSean Hanahan\, Host – Open Reading Follows
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Philly Jawns: For Women Revisited\, Poetry Anthology Tribute to Nina Simone
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81841890688?pwd=TU4yZ3g2Y2hBZCtzdk1hNVBFTHRzZz09 \nMeeting ID: 818 4189 0688  Passcode: 380783 \nPHILLY JAWNS: FOR WOMEN REVISITED \n A poetry anthology in tribute to Nina Simone \n“Editors Debra Powell-Wright and Pat McLean-Smith have lovingly gathered a chorus of voices from the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection to honor Nina Simone\, the queen of Black Woman Magic\, Rage and Reckoning. These Philly jawns revisit and revive Nina’s infinite gospel. This anthology is both playlist and prayer for Ms. Simone\, our mold-breaker and future fashioner.” —Yolanda Wisher\, Philadelphia Poet Laureate 2016-2017 \nWith: Annette Deigh\, Wanda Flowers\, Brenda Hodges\, Jaz\, Aziza Kebe\, Kia Knight\, Oni Lasana\, Pat McLean-Smith\, Alida Padilla\, Debra Powell-Wright\, Rahnda Rize\, Sandra Turner-Barnes\, Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon \n \nAnnette Deigh is a mother\, wife\, daughter\, sister\, friend\, child of God\, and survivor of child abuse and sexual assault\, which led her to become an “artivist\,” channeling her love of the arts and humanity into helping to heal others. \n  \n  \n  \n \nWanda Flowers Peacock has spent her life advocating for human rights\, as a teacher and as an attorney fighting discrimination in the workplace. She is focused on creating peace through interfaith activities\, exploring justice through poetic expression\, and by elevating the state of girls and women\, as a mentor. \n  \n  \n  \nBrenda Hodges is a poet and author whose work centers on telling the stories of Black\, Brown\, and Indigenous Women. She is the author of Contradictions in Shades of Blue\, a poetry collection\, and Naima The Junkman’s Daughter\, a novel. \n  \n  \n  \n \nJaz is a Performance Poet\, Singer\, Actress\, Author\, Award-Winning Poet & ASCAP songwriter\, who has performed at venues including Freedom Theater\, Temple University\, and Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church. Jaz is interested being of service to those considered to be castaways and forgotten people of the world. \n  \n  \n  \n \nAziza Kebe is an Art Activist\, Poet\, Griot\, Public Servant\, and Citizen of the World who utilizes her art form to uplift her culture\, promote Black Womanhood in a positive light\, and cultivate a consciousness  receptive to social and political change. \n  \n  \n  \nKia Knight is a poet\, singer\, songwriter\, dancer and percussionist. She has been performing in the Philadelphia area and surround area as a guest artist with In The Company of Poets and as a member of For Women Collective. \n  \n  \n  \nNish Pugh is a founding member of In The Company of Poets and The Free-Though Collective performance ensembles\, she is also founder and facilitator of spoken word venues Word4Word\, Moods in Mocha\, and TOPS–Taste of Philly S.O.U.L. \n  \n  \n  \n \nOni Lasana (Desirable Poet of The People)\, a descendant of African San peoples with roots in Barbados\, is a life-long spirit-driven poet\, storyteller\, musician\, performance and teaching artist.  As “Auntie Oni” she can be heard telling stories on ABF Creative podcast. \n  \n  \n  \n \nPat McLean-Smith is a poet and teaching artist\, author of Poetry Pulls Pain and Healing Her Hurts\, author and illustrator of her children’s book Reggie Rascal. In addition\, Pat is the Founder and Director of the Tomorrow’s Girls Mentoring Program. \n  \n  \n  \n \n Alida L. Padilla aka Poetic Ali\, is a Puerto Rican woman who has loved poetry\, music and art since a young age. Poetic Ali contributes an inspired work influenced by Nina Simone’s music and voice for this collection. \n  \n  \n  \n \nDebra Powell-Wright serves as lead strategist of social justice artist advocacy collective\, SistahWrites!\, founder of the multi-genre performance ensemble\, For Women Collective\,  and a founding member of Philly’s first female spoken word ensemble\, In The Company of Poets. Her work can be found in Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees\, Imaging the Black Female Body: Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture\, Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin & Marissa Alexander\, The Pierian: Albany State University Literary Journal. \n  \n \nRahnda Rize is a singer/songwriter\, actor dancer and poet as well as an arts facilitator\, event organizer/host\, and an art for social change agent who advocates for the self esteem\, well-being and representation of Black women and girls. \n  \n  \n  \n \nSandra Turner-Barnes is a Poet\, Author\, Historian\, and Workshop Presenter\, author of Beyond the Back of the Bus\, But\, Mostly Love\, and a CD\, September Will Never Be the Same. She is a Trustee of the Camden County Historical Society; founding member of the New Jersey Black Cultural & Heritage Initiative Foundation; and the first African American woman appointed Executive Director of the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission. \n  \n  \nKimmika Williams Witherspoon is an Associate Professor of Urban Theater and Community Engagement at Temple University. She is the author of Through Smiles and Tears: The History of African American Theater (From Kemet to the Americas); The Secret Messages in African American Theater: Hidden Meaning Embedded in Public Discourse. Her scholarly work centers around pedagogy\, women’s issues\, the African diaspora\, performance rituals and community engagement. \n  \n  \nHost: Ewuare X. Osayande is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, publisher\, international social justice activist and anti-oppression educator.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Ahmad Almallah\, Grant Clauser\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737    Passcode: 678146 \n \nAhmad Almallah holds a Ph.D. in Classical Arabic Poetry from Indiana University Bloomington. He is currently a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania\, working on writing a book on Arabic love poetry and the ghazal. He held the position of Assistant Professor of Arabic and Arabic Literature at Middlebury College and left that position to move to Philadelphia with his wife and daughter in 2014. Since then he has found inspiration in Philadelphia to work on writing poetry and has been involved with the Arab arts and education organization\, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture\, in West Philadelphia. He is currently managing their project “Words Adorned: Andalusian Poetry and Music.” \n  \n \nGrant Clauser is the author of five books\, most recently Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Award) and Reckless Constellations (winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award). Poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Cortland Review\, The Literary Review\, The Journal\, Rattle\, Southern Poetry Review and others. He was the 2010 Montgomery County Poet Laureate\, has been a presenter at numerous writing conferences and a guest speaker at the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates. He received his MFA from Bowling Green State University where he was a Richard Devine Fellow. He is a senior editor at the New York Times’ Wirecutter and teaches poetry classes at Rosemont College
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