April 6. Marci Nelligan Featured at the Poetry Cartel Thursday Gig

OnApril 6. Marci Nelligan will be starring at the Poetry Cartel's weekly series at Harrisburg's Midtown Scholar Bookstore,  

Nelligan teaches creative writing at Franklin & Marshall. College. She's been published in numerous journals including Chain, syllogism, Free Lunch, and the Walrus.
Infinite Variations was published with Black Radish Books in 2011. Nelligan’s second full-length collection, The Ghost Manada is her most recent tome.

The Ghost Manada is a book of insistent absence in conversation with her own shade songs. The book is an intertext of experimental lyrics speaking to and through Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and the spirit of Emily Dickinson.

This event is hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is located at 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102, Phone: 717.236.1680

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March 16, Open mic Reading, March 23, Kenneth Vincent Walker at Poetry Thursdays

Marc 16-- Open Poetry Reading. 
     March 23; Kenneth Vincent Walker featured at Midtown Scholar

There'll be an open poetry reading at the Midtown Scholar, 

hosted by the Poetry Cartel on March 16, 7 to 9pm .

Kenneth Vincent Walker is a New Formalist Poet performing original traditional, classical, and lyrical poetry but, with a distinctly contemporary vibe.


 Walker will be featured performer for the weekly Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel series at the Midtown Scholar,, March 23rd. A brief open reading will precede the feature.

There'll be another 2-hour open reading on March 30. Share your verse Quaker style. No sign--up sheet, read as the spirit moves you.
   The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is located at 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102, Phone: 717.236.1680.

Thursday March 9, Craig Czury shares verse and more at the Midtown Scholar

March 9, Craig Czury reads his poetry at the Midtown Scholar.

Raised in  Pennsyvania's coal country, Czury, when he was 19, hitchhiked out of Wilkes-Barre on a journey of self-discovery that took him west to San Francisco and a hair full of flowers
Czury's first book of poetry, Janus Peeking, received the 1980 First Book Award from the Montana Arts Council. From there, Czury went on to publish 15 more collections of poetry. Czury’s work illustrates the pain and emptiness of the post-depression 's Mid-Atlantic states' coal-mining regions.

Here's a sample from a poem, “Coalscape:” all this black dust / black cinder and glass ground up / in the spine of a torn-out trainbed / smoke rising out of birch on the culm bank / when it begins to rain.... Much of Czury’s work is been known internationally. His verse has been translated into many different languages, including Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Italian.

Czury has been a featured poet at the International Poetry Festivals in Argentina, Ireland, Croatia, Colombia, Lithuania, and Macedonia.
He's worked as a traveling poet in schools, homeless shelters, prisons, mental hospitals, and community centers around the world. March 9th will find him in the heart of the capital city of Pennsylvania.
Czury's performance is part of a long-running poetry series, hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. Happens every Thursday. An open poetry reading will begin the night at 7 pm. Midtown Scholar Bookstore. 717.236.1680.

Watch, listen up. Czury reads in the big Apple. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQjTxl9RuJo https://www.pw.org/content/craig_czury