Poet Rick Kearns Featured Feb. 23 at the Reel Cafe, Midtown Cinema
Award-winning poet, freelance writer and musician Rick Kearns will be Poetry Thursdays’ featured reader on Thursday, February 23, at the Midtown Cinema’s Reel Cafe, 250 Reily Street, Harrisburg. He'll be reading from his latest book, Rufino's Secret, (FootHills Publishing, 2012).
Rick Kearns, aka Rick Kearns-Morales, is a poet, freelance writer and musician of Puerto Rican (Spanish/Taino) and European background based in Harrisburg, Pa.
Kearns' poems have appeared in the following anthologies: I Was Indian (before being Indian was cool) (FootHills Publishing, NY 2009); El Coro/A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1997); In Defense of Mumia (Writers & Readers Press, Harlem, NY, 1996); and ALOUD; Voices from the Nuyorican Cafe (Henry Holt & Co., NY, 1994. Winner of the American Book Award.) His work has appeared in literary reviews such as: The Massachusetts Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Chicago Review, ONTHEBUS, Poetry Motel, The Blue Guitar, Drum Voices Revue (So. Illinois University Edwardsville), The Patterson Review, HEART Quarterly, Big Hammer, Palabra: A Journal of Chicano and Literary Art, Yellow Medicine Review, Letras (the literary review of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College), Fledgling Rag and others.
Several of his poems have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese, and have been read on radio shows in Argentina, Brazil and elsewhere.
Kearns’ feature 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.
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