Gentle Harrisburg poet Marty Esworthy will be featured Dec.3 at Poetry Spoken Here, City Arts, 118 W. Philadelphia St., in York, PA 17401.
He's a leading advocate for sound poetry and meta-verse. Esworthy, a Megaera award-winning poet, editor emeritus of Steel Point Quarterly, and renowned poetry impresario, is founder of the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.
He’s been published in numerous regional and national publications, including Haggard & Halloo, text_TOWER, Literary Chaos, Fledgling Rag, The Fox Chase Review , logodaedalus, Syzygy, The International Digest of World Poetry, and The Miserere Review.
Recent Esworthy tomes include hard reality, Pacobooks, 2004, and The Object Stares Back, Uh-Oh!, T&T Press, 2009.
His collection Twenty-Six Javanese Proverbs won the 2006 R.E.Foundation Award for Outstanding Poetry from Iris G. Press in 2006.
In 2006, Esworthy set in motion A Poets’ Tour of Harrisburg, a poetic stroll through the Capital City, impressed for posterity in a book and on a CD.
A recent Pushcart nominee, dubbed "Gentle Ben" for his sweet, yet sardonic, verse, he also teaches poetry composition and literary performance. Gently, mais oui.
The Poetry Spoken Here/City Arts reading series, hosted by Keith Baughman, takes place on the first Monday of every Month, begins at 7 p.m. and runs until 9.
