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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Indran Amirthanayagam\, Claudia Gary\, & Mike Jurkovic
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday July 8\, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE \nIndran Amirthanayagam is a poet\, editor\, publisher\, translator\, youtube host and diplomat.  He writes in English\, Spanish\, French\, Portuguese and Haitian Creole and is the author of 30 books and translations. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, writes a weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento; has received fellowships from the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, The US/Mexico Fund for Culture and the Macdowell Colony. He is the 2025 Matwaala Poet of Honor. His first book The Elephants of Reckoning won the 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize in the United States and is the 2025 Poet of Honor for Matwaala and IFLAC’s 2022 World Poet/Poeta Mundial. Indran comments on poetry at indranmx.substack.com \nClaudia Gary’s new poetry book\, Time and Other Solvents\, is a story of healing. She lives near Washington DC and teaches workshops on Sonnets\, Villanelles\, Natural Meter\, Persona Poems\, Poetry vs. Trauma\, etc. at The Writer’s Center (writer.org). She is also the author of Humor Me and chapbooks\, and is an advisory editor for New Verse Review\, health/science writer\, visual artist\, and composer of tonal art songs and chamber music. \nMike Jurkovic is 2025-2027 Ulster County Poet Laureate. Published globally. Little reportable income. Collections: Circling Planes\, Buckshot Reckoning\, mooncussers\, AmericanMental\,  2016 Pushcart nominee. President Calling All Poets Series. Co-chair of the Music Fan Film Series\, Rosendale Theatre\, Rosendale\, NY. CD reviews online All About Jazz and lightwoodpress.com  Host of NuJazzXcursions\, Mondays\, 9-11a WVKR-FM 91.3 Vassar College. He loves Emily most of all. \nLiz Allen Host – Open Reading Follows
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Painting in the Dark: An Artistic Collaboration
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 11th\, 2026 – 4 to 7 pm \nCity Arts Salon\, 5838 Germantown Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA 19144 \nPainting in the Dark interrogates the hideousness of war\, addiction\, and delusion with the consolation concluding poet John Lavin’s final poem\, –but that’s all we have is each other. Illustrators Gregorio Torres\, III and Janelle Robinson have joined Lavin in mapping the extreme pain and pleasure inherent in this collection’s narrative arc: a journey from darkness to light. Just such solidarity is engrained in this book’s search within the darkness imposed  by a king’s tyranny (“Goya Under House Arrest”) and elaborated in erotic euphoria\, colonial oppression\, exile\, and erasure. John Lavin was Gregorio’s drama teacher and ten years after Greg’s graduation Lavin attended an exhibition of Torres and his partner\, Janelle Robinson’s art in New York (2023) where they began the conversation that inspired this collection.  Event will combine reading from Collection of Poems\, Musical Performance and Reflection.
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LOCATION:City Arts Salon\, 5838 Germantown Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19144\, United States
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