Two Philadelphia poets, J.C. Todd and MaryAnn Miller, will be featured at Poetry Thursdays, March 8, at the Midtown Cinema’s Reel Cafe, 250 Reily Street, Harrisburg.
The poet formerly known as Jane Todd Cooper is now J. C. Todd.
Todd currently teaches creative writing at Bryn Mawr College and in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rosemont College after many years of teaching secondary English and leading Artist-in-the-Schools workshops. Her awards include a Fellowship in Poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, two Leeway Foundation grants, and a fellowship to Kunstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She’s been affiliated with the Dodge Poetry Program for more than 20 years.
Widely published in journals such as The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. She’s the author of What Space This Body published by Wind Publications 2008 as well as Nightshade and Entering Pisces, chapbooks published by Pine Press. her most recent collection of poems, What Space This Body, is published by Wind Publications.
MaryAnn Miller has been the Resident Book Artist at the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College since 2001. Her work is in the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Miller’s latest project has been the design and binding of a limited edition artist book of the works of Burmese writer and political prisoner Khet Mar. Her poetry has been published in Certain Circuits and in the Philadelphia Poets Anthology 2011. Miller is a recipient of the Petracca Award Special Mention.She’s been a contributing writer on women in the arts for Garden State Woman magazine, and her feature on artist Willie Cole was recently published in the International Review of African American Art.
Miller’s debut book of poems, Locus Mentis, has been published by PS Books, the small press division of Philadelphia Stories magazine.
The feature presentation begins at 8, following an 7pm open mic. Poetry Thursdays, beginning its 14th year as a weekly poetry series, is sponsored by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. Marty Esworthy hosts.
For more information: (717) 909-6566.
Poetry Thursdays' March Schedule:
March 1– In-like-a-Lion open reading
March 8– J.C. Todd, MaryAnn L. Miller
March 15– Ides of March reading
March 22– Annette Russell
March 29– open poetry reading
