Category: announcement

MAD POETS REVIEW (Volume 21)

..Book Release Party is today, Saturday, December 1 2007 at 11:00am, at the Delaware Co. Institute of Science, 11 Veterans Square, Media, PA 19063.

The new issue features work by RENEE ASHLEY, BARB CROOKER, DAVID KOZINSKI, MARIA FAMA, ANNA EVANS, RACHEL BUNTING, COURTNEY BAMBRICK, PAUL MARTIN, HARRY HUMES, LOUIS McKEE, CA CONRAD, FRANK SHERLOCK, and others, including:

WINNERS OF THE 2007 MAD POETS REVIEW COMPETITION:
KATE NORTHROP was the Judge for the 2007 Mad Poets Competition. In a field of 425 poems, Kate chose 12 to recognize. This year’s winners are:

1ST PRIZE – KATE WILDING
2ND PRIZE – KIM GEK LIN SHORT
3RD PRIZE – BARBARA TORODE
4TH PRIZE – TAMMY PAOLINO
5TH PRIZE – MARGARET ROBINSON
6TH PRIZE – ASHRAF OSMAN (for Seasons)
7TH PRIZE – RICHARD S. BANK
8TH PRIZE – KATE WILDING
9TH PRIZE – CAMILLE NORVAISAS
10TH PRIZE – DIANE GUARNIERI
11TH PRIZE – MARGARET ROBINSON
12TH PRIZE – HANOCH GUY

BENEFIT FOR ACTION AIDS

I would like to invite you to a benefit for Action AIDS at which I’ll be reading. Action AIDS is an invaluable Philadelphia resource for those living with HIV. They need our help to keep their doors open, and we’ve created a fantastic night of MUSIC, POETRY and PERFORMANCE for you!

NOVEMBER 13TH, 2007
STARTING AT 8PM
THE BALCONY
(UPSTAIRS AT THE TROCADERO)
1003 ARCH STREET
CHINATOWN, PHILADELPHIA

http://www.actionaids.org

BRING YOUR FRIENDS! We’re asking a sliding scale of $5 to $20, but if you can afford more, PLEASE BE GENEROUS, this is an important night!

HOSTED BY AD Amarosi, CAConrad, and Betsy Andrews

THE EXTRAORDINARY TWO-HEADED DIVA MCs FOR THE NIGHT WILL BE
NEEDLES JONES
&
THE DIVINE MS. JIMMI

PERFORMERS INCLUDE:

THE FEVERFEW
THE ABSINTHE DRINKERS
MY INVISIBLE
GEMINI WOLF
ISH KLEIN
JASON ZUZGA
FRANK SHERLOCK
THEY ARE BIRDS
ASHRAF OSMAN
DOROTHEA LASKY
TARA MURTHA
MARALYN LOIS POLAK

First Friday at Milkboy Coffee

Bring your poetry and come join us on Friday, July 6 for what my friend Alrene so aptly described as “love-in” for “the battle-scarred veterans of so many open mics”! It will be an open mic, including but not limited to poets from the Mad Poets Society, Friends of Poetry and PhillyPoetry. We’re scheduled to begin at 7 pm, and the address is the new MilkBoy Coffee at 824 West Lancaster Ave in the Bryn Mawr Film Institute.

Poetry Corner @ Fairmount Arts Crawl

This Sunday, April 29 2007, I will be reading with a group of friends and fellow poets at the Poetry Corner, as part of the Fairmount Arts Crawl, a day of art and festivities in the Fairmount district. I hope you can join us for a fun-filled day of events!

Fairmount Arts Crawl: Poetry Corner
Ward Park, corner of 24th & Aspen Streets
(Rain Venue: London Grill Coffee Shop / 23rd & Fairmount)
Sunday, April 29 2007, from 2:00pm to 5:30pm
www.fairmountartscrawl.org

2:00 – Nancy Parks
2:30 – Ashraf Osman
3:00 – Michele Belluomini
3:30 – Dan Maguire
4:00 – Arlene Bernstein – www.friendsofpoetry.com
4:30 – Joe Fanning (musician)
5:00 – Dr. Niama Williams – www.niamalesliewilliams.citymax.com

Program:

  1. Tell Me
  2. Bohemian Dreams
  3. Leaves
  4. Anymore
  5. Red Light District
  6. In the Making
  7. Jellyfish
  8. Lazy
  9. Perduto
  10. Galileo
  11. Revelations
  12. Stardust
  13. You Lie
  14. Splintered
  15. Looking In
  16. Silences
  17. What If
  18. Well Done

Queering Language – The Philly Launch Event

This coming Saturday I will be reading at the Philadelphia Launch Event for EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts, Issue 3: “Queering Language” in which I was featured. This online publication is free and includes the work of over 100 contributors as well as editors’ statements on this project:
http://chax.org/eoagh/issue3/issuethree.html

Saturday, March 24th, 6pm to 8pm
ROBIN’S BOOKSTORE
108 S. 13th St. Philadelphia

I hope you can make it!

For more information:
http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/032407.html

"Queering Language" Poetry Anthology

. . . is out, and I’m in it! The kick-off event will be in New York at the Bowery Poetry Club this Saturday, and I will most probably be there. Here are the details:

Saturday, February 10th, 2007
8pm-10pm
@ The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (@ Bowery & Bleecker)
www.bowerypoetry.com
Admission $5.00 plus 2 drink minimum

There will also be an event for the anthology here in Philadelphia, more on that later.

This online publication includes the work of over 100 contributors as well as editors’ statements on this project.