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Event title
Beyond the Page: Lyrics & Line Breaks
Start time
11/13/2024 6:00pm
Location
H&H Books, 2230 Frankford Avenue Philadelphia PA 19125
Description
In this panel, Our Beyond the Page series will get into the venn diagram that is actually a circle between poetry and music. Some insights into craft and writing process, as well as some readings and performances! Featuring Anni Liu, Jimin Seo, and Sadie Dupuis!
Link
Contact info
saram.henke@gmail.com
Cost
Free
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Event title
Temple University Creative Writing MFA Program Info Session
Start time
11/13/2024 7:30pm
Location
Zoom
Description
Interested in Temple's MFA Program in Creative Writing? Join faculty members Liz Moore, Cara Blue Adams, Pattie McCarthy, and Jena Osman via Zoom on Nov. 13th, 7:30 pm. Learn the ins and outs about the Temple program and applying to it, as well as about graduate studies in creative writing in general. This will mostly be a Q&A, so please come with questions.
Link
Contact info
Tara.lemma.diffley@temple.edu
Cost
Free
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Event title
Cooper Street Workshop: The Stubborn Muse: A Poetry Revision Workshop
Start time
11/16/2024 10:00am
Location
Rutgers-Camden Writers House, 305 Cooper St. Camden NJ 08102
Description
Instructor: Peter Murphy. The most meaningful poems tackle important topics such as truth, beauty, love, loss, death, etc. However, many poems fail to connect with readers because they rely too heavily on abstract language. After examining drafts and published poems, we’ll practice crafting our feelings and thoughts into concrete language so our readers will feel and think something akin to what we intend. Bring two or three poems with you, and let’s advance them to the next level.
Link
Contact info
writers@camden.rutgers.edu
Cost
$60 general / $10 Rutgers-Camden students and Camden residents
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Event title
In Conversation with Zach Ozma
Start time
11/16/2024 2:00pm
Location
Walnut St. West Library: 201 S. 40th St., Philadelphia, PA 19104
Description
Come for a conversation with poet, ceramicist, and editor Zach Ozma about his book, "We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961-1991." Sullivan was a transgender activist, author, and community leader in San Francisco. Ozma will give a short reading, there will be an interview about the creation of the book and Ozma's other creative work, and then a Q& A. Bring a copy of the book if you'd like to get it signed! Event requires registration.
Link
Contact info
Max Van Cooper, Library Trainee: vancooperm@freelibrary.org
Cost
Free
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Event title
Wild Indigo Presents M. Nzadi Keita & Niki Herd
Start time
11/17/2024 5:00pm
Location
Young American Cider, 6350 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144
Description
Co-sponsored by Reclaim Philadelphia and Young American Cider, and co-hosted/co-curated by Sarah Browning and Raina León. The goals of the series are to build multiracial community through the transformative power of poetry, to showcase a diverse line-up of contemporary local and national poets, and to provide opportunities for poets to share work on the open mic. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
M. NZADI KEITA is a poet, essayist, scholar, and educator. Her third book, Migration Letters: Poems, which will be available for sale, reflects on her upbringing and coming of age as a Black working-class woman in Philadelphia, originally Lenapehoking land. Keita used persona to unveil Frederick Douglass’s first wife in her second book, Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the Life of Anna Murray Douglass, which David Blight cited in his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Journals including Obsidian, Poet Lore, About Place, and Raising Mothers have published Keita’s writing. She has worked as an adviser to the award-winning documentary, BadddDDD Sonia Sanchez, and a consultant for the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Foundation and Mural Arts Philadelphia. For many years Keita taught creative writing, American literature, and Africana studies at Ursinus College. She is a Cave Canem alumna, a Pew Fellow, and a Leeway Foundation grantee.
NIKI HERD is the author of the poetry collections The Stuff of Hollywood, which will be for sale, and The Language of Shedding Skin, as well as the chapbook _____ , don’t you weep. She coedited, with Meg Day, Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. Herd’s poetry, essays, and criticism appear in the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day), Poetry Daily, New England Review, Salon, and This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Ucross, Bread Loaf, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Newberry Library, and Cave Canem. Herd has taught at the University of Houston and Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Lancaster where she teaches at Franklin & Marshall College.
Link
Contact info
wildindigo.poetry@gmail.com
Cost
$5 suggested donation - more if you can!
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Event title
Free Library of Philadelphia Monday Poets 30th Anniversary Season
Start time
11/18/2024 5:30pm
Location
Thomas F. Donatucci Sr. Library
Description
Join the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Literature Department in celebrating the 30th Anniversary season of Monday Poets. This year’s theme is Sankofa (SAHN-koh-fah), a Twi word from the Akan Tribe of Ghana which loosely implies that to move forward, one must “go back and get it”. In that spirit we will be celebrating at each event a past Monday Poet and introduce a new one. Each month from September 2024 to April 2025 a new Sankofa pair will read at a new library. Monday Poets exists to inspire and connect poets and community members across the city of Philadelphia. This program, hosted by Thomas F. Donatucci, Sr. Library, is free and open to the public.
Previous Monday Poet: M. Nzadi Keita
M. Nzadi Keita's third book, Migration Letters: Poems, reflects on her Black working-class upbringing in Philadelphia. In Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the life of Anna Murray Douglass, Keita used persona to unveil Frederick Douglass’s first wife. For many years, she taught creative writing, American literature, and Africana Studies at Ursinus College. Keita is a Pew Fellow and Leeway Foundation Transformation Awardee.
New Monday Poet: Mabel Lee
Mabel Lee is a poet and educator from Philadelphia, where she participates in various literary groups and teaches middle school students. Most recently she has facilitated poetry workshops centering around the preservation of beloved neighborhoods and resistance against big development. She believes in the transformative and connective power of poetry within and across communities and language as a bridge towards knowing and helping others.
Link
Contact info
ereflit@freelibrary.org
Cost
Free
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Event title
Gary Shteyngart at Kelly Writers House
Start time
11/19/2024 5:00pm
Location
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Description
5:00 PM: reception
6:00 PM: reading and conversation
Author of the critically acclaimed knockout novels
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, and
Super Sad True Love Story, Russian-born Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. His latest novel,
Our Country Friends, which follows a group of friends isolating together for six months during the pandemic, is a powerful story about friendship. His
New York Times bestselling memoir,
Little Failure, is a candid, witty, and deeply poignant account of his life so far. He shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. Off the page, Shteyngart is a masterful storyteller recounting his life as a Lenin-loving, ratty-fur-overcoat-wearing child to his anxiety-attack-prone twenties in New York. As a speaker, Shteyngart explores what it means to be an immigrant, a son, an American, a grown-up, and a writer. He was named a Granta Best Young American Novelist and a
New Yorker “Best Writer Under 40.” For more information, visit
www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/gary-shteyngart.
Link
Contact info
wh@writing.upenn.edu
Cost
Free
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