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SUMMARY:BLACK LIVES MATTER: Virtual Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting ID: 821 6127 0135 – Zoom Passcode: 960363 – Phone: 1-646-9923\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82161270135?pwd=aDVLWlcxWmFsMTNwNjR1L3lEZXV1QT09 \nSandra 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 the concept of “Jazz-Oetry” and began singing Jazz. In 2000\, Sandra’s live jazz vocals’ video performance\, with pianist Barry Sames\, was selected for National & International airing on BET’s syndicated show “Jazz Discoveries.” \nTheodore A. Harris is a collagist\, poet\, and founder and director of The Institute for Advanced Study in Black Aesthetics. He has co-authored books with Amiri Baraka\, such as Our Flesh of Flames\, Malcolm X as Ideology\, and TRIPTYCH: Text by Amiri Baraka and Jack Hirschman\, as well as i ran from it and was still in it with Fred Moten. “Posed against an eerily iridescent orange sky\,” as quoted from Our Flesh Of Flames\, Harris’ collaged landscapes are filled with urban dystopia. Upside down capitols and distorted banknotes pose the reality of a society fettered by the cash nexus. Controversial critic and poet Amiri Baraka provides lyrical assault through his captions with his trademark humor and biting social commentary. \nLamont B. Steptoe is an award-winning poet\, photographer\, founder of Whirlwind Press\, and Vietnam veteran\, born and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. He has published sixteen collections of poems and is the winner of an American Book Award\, a Pew Fellow in the Arts\, and two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts awards\, as well as induction into the International Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent by the Gwendolyn Brooks Center in Chicago. Steptoe’s work appears in over one hundred anthologies\, the most recent being Waging Peace in Vietnam. His most recent titles are Crowns & Halos\, Oracular Rumblings & Stilt Walking\, Meditations in Congo Square\, and Beyond the White Stone Lions. \nM. Nzadi Keita is a native Philadelphian. Her most recent collection\, Brief Evidence of Heaven\, sheds light on Anna Murray Douglass\, Frederick Douglass’ first wife. Poet Lore journal\, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South\, and other publications have featured her work. Keita received a 2017 Pew Fellowship for Poetry. She is an associate professor of English\, Creative Writing\, and African-American/Africana Studies at Ursinus College. \nKirwyn Sutherland is a Clinical Research Professional and poet who makes poems centering the black experience in America. He is a Watering Hole fellow and has attended workshops/residencies at Cave Canem\, Winter Tangerine\, Poets House\, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym\, and Pearlstein Art Gallery at Drexel University. Kirwyn was a member of the 2015 Philadelphia Pigeon Slam and the 2016 Philadelphia Fuze Poetry Slam Team. Kirwyn’s work has been published in American Poetry Review\, Blueshift Journal\, APIARY Magazine\, FOLDER\, The Wanderer\, and elsewhere. He has served as Editor of Lists/Book Reviewer for WusGood magazine and poetry editor for APIARY Magazine and teaches Spoken Word/Poetry Performance at the University of the Arts. \nLamont B. Steptoe\, Host
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SUMMARY:PhillyCAM: Trapeta B. Mayson
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM\nComcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia \nPlease 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. \n\nTrapeta B. Mayson is the 2020-2021 Philadelphia Poet Laureate. She is a recipient of a Pew Fellowship in Literature\, Leeway Transformation Award\, Leeway Art and Change Grant\, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grants. Her work was also nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize. Mayson is a Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow and a 2019 Aspen Words Emerging Writers Fellow with the Aspen Institute. She is the author of She Was Once Herself and Mocha Melodies. Mayson also released two music and poetry projects\, SCAT and This Is How We Get Through\, in collaboration with internationally-acclaimed jazz guitarist Monnette Sudler. Her other publications include submissions in The American Poetry Review\, Epiphany Literary Journal\, Aesthetica Magazine\, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry\, among others. Mayson is a native of Liberia. She is a graduate of Temple University\, Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research\, and Villanova University School of Business. Currently working in the social services field\, Mayson is a member of several local organizations where she uses the arts to mobilize\, build community\, and create change. trapetamayson.com \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
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LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:On the Verge: Poets of the Palisades with Dave Worrell
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting ID: 818 3720 4326\, Zoom Passcode: 100371\, Phone: 1-646-9923\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81837204326?pwd=VzBwOVFVZHNjckMrNzVCU1loOVBpZz09 \nOn 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 and Paul Nash. \nNorma Ketzis Bernstock‘s poetry has appeared in many print and online journals\, including Napalm and Novacaine\, Stillwater Review\, Exit 13\, US 1 Worksheets\, Connecticut River Review\, and Paterson Literary Review. \nTheresa Burns is author of Two Train Town\, Pushcart Prize nominee\, and founder and curator of Watershed Literary Events in New Jersey. Her poetry\, reviews\, and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times\, Prairie Schooner\, New Ohio Review\, JAMA\, America Magazine\, The Cortland Review\, SWWIM\, and elsewhere. \nDeborah Gerris is the author of three books of poems\, Light in Light (2017)\, The Language of Paisley\, and the chapbook The Language of Rain. Her poems appear in many anthologies and journals. \nAnton Yakovlev‘s latest poetry chapbook Chronos Dines Alone (SurVision Books\, 2018) won the James Tate Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The New Criterion\, The Hopkins Review\, and elsewhere. \nPaul Nash works at AMNH\, conducting laboratory and field research on ancient organisms preserved in amber and sedimentary rock.  He authors scientific articles\, poetry\, fiction\, and satire.  He has been both an editor and contributor for three Poets of the Palisades anthologies\, an editor for Roy Lucianna’s posthumous poetry collection Neptune on High\, and founded and co-hosts two reading series (with his wife Denise). \nDenise La Neve writes both poetry and fiction. She was a contributor and editor for the 2010 and 2016 Poets of the Palisades anthologies Beyond the Rift and META-LAND. She co-hosts two poetry series under the umbrella of the North Jersey Literary Community (The Poets of the Palisades in Teaneck and The High Mountain Meadow in Wayne). \nJohn J. Trause\, Director of Oradell Public Library\, is the author of six books of poetry and one of parody\, Latter-Day Litany (Éditions élastiques\, 1996)\, the latter staged Off-Broadway. Marymark Press has published his visual poetry and art as broadsides and sheets. He is a founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford\, N. J.\, and the former host and curator of its monthly reading series. \nDave Worrell is author of We Who Were Bound and the ekphrastic collection Close to Home features paintings by Catherine Kuzma. Dave’s poems have appeared in Slant\, Canary\, Shot Glass Journal\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, U.S. 1 Worksheets\, Exit 13\, and elsewhere. He has performed his music-backed poems at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia. \nDave Worrell\, Host
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SUMMARY:M. Nzadi Keita\, JC Todd\, Alina Macneal\, Jennifer Hook
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting ID: 849 0497 4839\, Passcode: 570429\, Phone: +1 646-876-9923\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84904974839?pwd=U0lZb3JuOFlvRlUya1VjSlRTblBWdz09 \nNzadi 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 David Blight\, the book was also a finalist for the Phillis Wheatley Prize from the Quarterly Black Book Review. Keita is an alumna of Cave Canem\, whose poems have appeared in journals such as Poet Lore and anthologies including A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. Fellowships from Yaddo\, the Fine Arts Work Center\, and Leeway Foundation have supported Keita’s writing and community work. She has collaborated with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Project\, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation\, and WHYY. Keita is an associate professor at Ursinus College. \nJ. C. Todd is author of five books of poetry; most recent are Beyond Repair\, runner-up in the 2020 Able Muse Press Contest (forthcoming in 2020)\, and The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Press)\, a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award finalist. Winner of the Rita Dove Prize and twice a finalist for Poetry Society of America awards\, she holds fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and has poems in Beloit Poetry Journal\, The Paris Review\, and Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts\nYou can sign up for the open reading at 7PM!
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