Eliza Callard is a Philly gal, and still lives in the Germantown rowhouse she grew up in. She likes to run in the Wissahickon and kayak in the Schuylkill, she has been published widely. Lucy Bell Sellers lives in Germantown, taught theatre at Germantown Friends and at College of the Atlantic. She has written poetry […]
African American Museum in Philadelphia, 701 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Free with Reduced Museum Admission of $5.00 Poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks was a singular force in American culture. The first black woman to be named United States poet laureate, Brook’s poetry, fiction, and social commentary shed light on the beauty of […]
2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM There are there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area. They represent every poetry form, ethnic background, age, gender and community. This series consists of a panel of guest poets and artists discussing the opportunities which their group or organization provides […]
Brandon H. Blake has been an artist throughout his life, eventually studying Fine Arts at Millersville University. Primarily, he has been writing haikus as well as exploring other traditional forms of poetry throughout the last ten to fifteen years. Poet and lyricist Beulah Gordon-Skinner has featured at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, […]
John Oliver Mason, author of All of the Above “Like every writer, I have tried to find a place to publish my material-what better motivation to write than to find some place to write for? I read an article in The Writer which had an essay about how writers should have their own e-mail newsletter; […]
April Lynn James & Madison Hatta Dr. April Lynn James, award-winning performer, scholar, and Librarian-in-Training rolls in with her muse/guardian angel Madison Hatta, Sonneteer. Madison, a Mirth-Maker Extraordinaire, composes and declaims whimsical sonnets on such themes as madness, Time, career & family dysFUNction, and the importance of drinking tea. The wordplay and imagery are drawn […]
Tickets $15.00, Students with ID – $7.50 – available at Square.com In 2014, Weaver completed his Plum Flower Trilogy with the publication of his 14th collection of poetry, City of Eternal Spring. A Los Angeles Times review of the trilogy echoed previous critical evaluations of his oeuvre to date: “Compared to Whitman by the poet […]
2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCAM Sonia Sanchez, Philadelphia’s First Poet Laureate, Yolanda Wisher is the 2016-17 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, Husnaa Hashim is the current Youth PoetLaureate, David Jones is a former Youth Poet Laureate. Host: Charles S. Carr
Sarah Blake is the author of two poetry collections, Let’s Not Live on Earth and Mr. West. An illustrated workbook accompanies her chapbook, Named After Death. In 2013, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her debut novel, Naamah is forthcoming. Nomi Stone’s second collection of poems, Kill Class is forthcoming, based […]
Deborah Burnham, author of Anna and the Steel Mill, Still and a volume ofpoetry, is the Associate Undergraduate Chair of the English Department and teaches poetry and poetry writing, with a particular interest in formal poems and in the history of women’s poetry at UPENN. Deborah Fox found her love for poetry as a result of a […]
