I will be reading at the Central Library in Philadelphia next Monday, January 8 at 6:30 pm. The reading is part of the library’s monthly Monday Poets series, and I have the pleasure to be reading with the sublime Autumn Konopka. If you’re in the area and looking for something to do on a Monday night, please join us! The reading will be in the beautiful Skyline Room (on the 4th floor, I believe) and the address is 1901 Vine Street.

Hope you can make it!

Ashraf

Program:

• The Coming
• Tired
• Tell Me
• The Smallness of Life
• Sandwiched
• Geography Lessons
• Frames
• Vacancies
• Nudity
• Hunger
• Reasons
• Looking Through Your Eyes
• Sentences
• The Worst Is Yet to Come
• What If

Saturday, December 9th at 11:00 a.m.
Mad Poets Review Volume 20 Book Release Party
The Delaware County Institute of Science
11 Veterans Square, Media, PA 19063
www.madpoetssociety.com
Contributors and Winners of both the 11th & 12th Annual Mad Poets Review Competitions read. I read Life on a Beautiful Day which received Honorable Mention in the 2005 MPR Competition.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006 from 7 – 9 P.M.
Celebrate the Winter Solstice with Poetry and Music
At the Belmont Hills Library
120 Marywatersford Road, Bala Cynwyd, PA
(Off Rte 23, Conshohocken State Road)
www.FriendsofPoetry.com
Host Poet Arlene Bernstein (Friends of Poetry)
Featuring
Eileen d’Angelo (Mad Poets Society)
Ashraf Osman (Philly Poets for Peace)
Bob Small (Poets & Prophets)
Annabella Wood & Joe Fanning (Singer/Songwriter/Guitarists)
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Program:
1. Bohemian Dreams
2. Seasons
3. ‘Tis the Season
4. Written Out
5. Café Lutecia
6. This & That
7. Autobiography

Wednesday, November 1st @ 6 pm:
I will be reading at Robin’s Bookstore in Center City (108 S. 13th St.) in an event titled 30 Poets Reading for Peace and Change, presented by Peace/Works & The Mad Poets Society, and featuring a stunning lineup of Philadelphia poets.

Friday, November 10 @ 7 pm:
I will be reading at the Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Mt. Airy (551 Carpenter Lane – Philadelphia, PA 19119) in another round of Philly Poets for Peace, with 5 other wonderful local poets.

For more details, please check out the listings at the PhillyPoetry calendar. I hope you can make it!

Ashraf

The 18th edition of the Ringing of the Bards—poetry carnival—is here, and it’s a special one! It is being hosted by the six “sexual deviants” of WetPoems© (may not be suitable for the workplace), and only “poems of the naughtiest nature” were considered. The challenge was to “unleash the fiercest pheromones” on the Ringing public, making it “the tastiest ringing to date”!

Due to the nature of this Ringing, the members of WetPoems tried to be especially accommodating to the participating blogging poets: “We realize that not everyone is ready to acknowledge their inner naughtiness, but we hope that by providing the option to anonymously submit to this ringing we give all of your inner sexuality and sensuality some room to play.”

And so it was, a veritable orgy of poetry, that yours truly was certainly excited (and proud) to be part of! The poems are listed anonymously, but I would be more than happy to reveal, at a later date, which is mine. Till then, happy guessing!

PS: There is a new entry on Poetship, as well, that touches on the subject of eroticism in poetry.

My poem, “A Dozen”, is now featured on miPOradio’s EPISODE 16 of THE COUNTDOWN, with Bob Marcacci as P.J. (podcast jockey). The episode is now online for your listening pleasure: “For your poetry fix. For your (h)ears only.” Listen to it on iTunes, or if you must on ODEO.

I will be reading at Ursinus College‘s Literary Society tomorrow, Thursday, October 5 at 7 pm at Zwingli Java Trench. The formal address is 620 E Main St, Collegeville, PA. The Literary Society is an informal poetry group of the creative writing program at Ursinus. The reading will be followed by an open mike for students. I look forward to feeling older than I should be!

On Sunday, October 8 2006, I will be participating in the Schuylkill Valley Journal contributors’ reading at the Manayunk Arts Center. The reading will be from 3:00pm to 5:00pm, and the address is 419 Green Lane (rear) Philadelphia PA 19128.

I will also be reading at Robin’s Bookstore with Israeli poet, Hanoch Guy, on Thursday October 19 at 7 pm. The event is titled “Peace Through Poetry“. I hope you can make it!

This week’s Poetry Carnival is in Almaty, Kazakhstan, at Russell Ragsdale’s Yuckelbel’s Canon; please drop by.

For the 10th time, this time at Ozymandiaz’s Paper Tigers.

I will be reading tomorrow, part of an open discussion on:

CEASE FIRE: The end of the US/Israel War in the Middle East?
Date: Tuesday, August 22nd
Time: 7pm.
Place: 48th & Baltimore Ave. (Calvary Church)
Featuring: Sara Flounders, Co-Director International Action Center

I hope you can make it.

I will be reading tonight at 6:30 pm in Center City at the Ethical Society of Philadelphia (2nd floor) on Rittenhouse Square.

Address:
1906 South Rittenhouse Square,
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone:
(215) 735-3456