THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. A NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON. $8. Advance. $10 at the door. Intersections - Where Poetry and Women Meet. A discussion on the role of Women and Poetry. Panel discussion followed by readings. Presented by Mad Poets Society.
BYOB optional. $5 additional BYOB fee per alcohol drinker at the door. Drinkware and ice provided. New Avenue Cafe will be open for snack and refreshment purchases. Free Parking in Oakmont Municipal lot behind Kelly Center off Darby Road.
Doors open at 7:00 pm for Advance Sales. 7:15 pm for Door Sales. 7:30 start.
Intersections - Where Poetry and Women Meet. 100 years ago, women in this country earned the right to vote. To commemorate this event, The Mad Poets Society is proud to announce Intersections: Where Poetry and Women Meet. This event will consist of a panel discussion in which moderator Katch Campbell will discuss the state of women in poetry with a panel of prominant poets. After the discussion, the panelists will read selections from their own work.
Your moderator, Katch Campbell is both a scientist and a writer. With a masters degree in science from UPENN and an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts she works by day as a clinical educator for AbbVie. She is Vice President and poetry faculty for the River Pretty Arts Foundation, and has co-led creative writing workshops in Italy and Slovenia. Her work can be found at Zomag. QueenMobs. and in the Paddle Shots Anthology. http://Riverpretty.org
Courtney K. Bambrick is Philadelphia Stories’ poetry editor. Her poetry has appeared at The Fanzine, Apiary, Certain Circuits, Dirty Napkin, Philadelphia Poets, Mad Poets Review, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. Courtney teaches composition, creative writing, and literature at Rosemont College, Delaware County Community College, and Widener University.
Amy Saul-Zerby is the author of two poetry collections, Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds (Be About It Press, 2017) and Deep Camouflage (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018). Her poems have appeared in The Rumpus, The Chicago Review of Books, Maudlin House, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Peach Magazine, GlitterMOB, and elsewhere. She is editor-in-chief of Voicemail Poems and author of the Notable Philadelphia column at The Rumpus.
Octavia McBride-Ahebee’s work presents human relationships within the context of global inequality. Her poetry collections include Assuming Voices, Where My Birthmark Dances and most recently Praise Song for the Gravediggers. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Rigorous, For Harriet, Raising Lilly Ledbetter; Women Poets Occupy the Workplace, Yellow Medicine, Badilisha Poetry Exchange, South Philly Fiction, Damazine; A Literary Journal of the Muslim World, Fingernails Across The Chalkboard: Poetry And Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora, Under Our Skin: Literature of Breast Cancer, Sea Breeze- A Journal of Contemporary Liberian Writing, The Journal of the National Medical Association; Art in Medicine, International Quarterly; Faces of the Americas and the Beloit Poetry Journal. Her poetry was also included in the Poetry Ink Anthologies honoring Sonia Sanchez and Gwendolyn Brooks.
This event will also be a fundraiser. Proceeds from the ticket sales will benefit the Kelly Center for Music, Arts and Community and Purses Full of Hope, an organization dedicated to collecting toiletries, cosmetics, feminine products, and other items to be distributed to women at shelters with the intention of empowering women with hope. For more information about their mission, visit www.pursesfullofhope.org.
Mad Poets Society is supported by PA Partners in the Arts (PPA), the regional arts funding partnership of the PA Council on the Arts (PCA), a state agency. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by PA’s General Assembly and The National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the FIVE COUNTY ARTS FUND. For info on MAD POETS SOCIETY, see: www.madpoetssociety.com.
