Upcoming Readings

The 9th Annual Welcome to Boog City Festival--5 Days of Poetry, Music, and Theater

I'm reading on Thursday, August 6 at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn:

$5 suggested

600 Vanderbilt Ave.

Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza,

C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Ave.

Venue is bet. Prospect Pl./St. Marks Ave.

6:00 p.m. Jacob Bennett

6:15 p.m. Emily Skillings

6:25 p.m. Joel Sloman

6:40 p.m. Ruth Lepson

6:55 p.m. Sharon Mesmer

7:05 p.m. Ethel Rackin

7:20 p.m. Kirk Kelly (music)

7:50 p.m. break

8:00 p.m. Elizabeth Savage

8:10 p.m. Tyler Antoine

8:25 p.m. Julia Edwards

8:35 p.m. Sara Jane Stoner

8:45 p.m. Frank Olson (music)

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Sunday, August 9 in the Jubilant Thicket Reading Series at Head House Books in Philadelphia

with Docena Blyden and Elizabeth Savage:

Head House Books

619 S 2nd St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19147

5 pm

Upcoming Readings

I'm very much looking forward to these three upcoming readings:

April 6, 6:30 pm: With Kasey Jueds, Free Library of Philadelphia

April 9, 3 pm: Parlor Press AWP Offsite Reading, Boneshaker Books, Minneapolis

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April 18, 3:30 pm: Philadelphia Sketch Club

Philadelphia Sketch Club
235 South Camac Street
Philadelphia PA 19107
215-545-9298
sketchclub.org

April 18, 2015 is Philadelphia Poetry Day. Poetry Everywhere! Here at the Sketch Club in the Exhibition Gallery surrounded by the works of the Small Oils Exhibition, a poetry reading by two area poets is scheduled from 3:30 to 4:30 pm.

Ethel Rackin is the author of The Forever Notes, published by Parlor Press in 2013. Her second collection of poems, Evening, was named a finalist for the 2014 Akron Poetry Prize. Her work has also appeared in journals such as The American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Court Green, Evergreen Review, Kestrel, Poetry East, Verse Daily, and Volt. She has taught at Penn State Brandywine, Haverford College, and Bucks County Community College, where she is currently an associate professor.

Leonard Gontarek’s  recent books are He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs and Déjà vu Diner. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Joyful Noise! An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry, The Working Poet, American Poetry Review, Fence, Field, Verse, Poet Lore, Spinning Jenny, and as a tattoo. He coordinates Peace/Works and hosts The Green Line Reading and Interview Series. He was the 2011 Philadelphia Literary Death Match Champion and recipient of the 2014 Philadelphia Writers Conference Community Service Award. His poems have been translated into Italian and Romanian.    www.leafscape.org/LeonardGontarek

Elizabeth Savage's Idylliad

Getting excited for the imminent release of Elizabeth Savage's stunning new book, Idylliad.

Reading in New Hope with Kasey Jueds and Molly Weigl

Farley's Books, New Hope, PA: http://www.farleysbookshop.com/ 
Thursday, December 4, 2014, 7pm 

Greg Weiss Reviews The Forever Notes

Here in the Colorado Review

Reading in Philadelphia with Elizabeth Savage and David Adès

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub
1214 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA 19107

Wednesday, November 12 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Featured poets Ethel Rackin (author of The Forever Notes and Evening), Elizabeth Savage (author of Jane & Paige or Sister Goose, Grammar and Idylliad) and David Adès (author of Mapping the World) will be followed by an Open Reading hosted by Charles S Carr.

Event Contact Information
Larry Robin
215-735-9600
larry@moonstoneartscenter.org
http://www.moonstoneartscenter.org/

Akron Poetry Prize

I'm honored that my second collection of poems was named a finalist for this year's Akron Poetry Prize