Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street.
Wednesday July 23, 2014 – 7pm
New poems from three global voices.
Jeffrey Ethan Lee’s towards euphoria was the co-winner of the editor’s poetry chapbook prize from Seven Kitchens Press. His dramatic poetry book, identity papers, was a 2006 Colorado Book Award finalist. His first full-length poetry book was invisible sister. He won the 2002 Sow’s Ear Poetry Chapbook prize for The Sylf, created identity papers (audio CD) for Drimala Records, published Strangers in a Homeland, and poems, stories and essays in North American Review, Xconnect, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Many Mountains Moving, Crosscurrents, American Poetry Review..
Christine Salvatore teaches literature and creative writing at Rosemont College, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and Egg Harbor Township High School as well as poetry at the Dodge Poetry Program and Murphy Writing Seminars. Her poetry has recently appeared in Mead, The Literary Review, The Cortland Review, Prime Number Magazine etc. Her poem “Betrayal” was a finalist in The Southeast Review’s 2013 Poetry Contest, and she was a recipient of a 2005 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts.
Aaren Perry is an invited speaker at schools, colleges and conferences including Philadelphia’s Welcome America celebration, MLA and PWC. He is published in magazines and newspapers, and has appeared on NPR and regional TV. A Vermont College Masters grad, Aaren is the author of three collections of poetry. He received a State Arts Council Writing Fellowship. Aaren has traveled in numerous countries and performed at venues from the Philadelphia Fringe and Kimmel Center and World Café to the Nuyorican.
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