Marty Esworthy Featured Dec. 3 at Poetry Spoken Here, CityArts

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.

Poetry Thursdays at at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore

September Poetry Thursdays at

at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore

 

To honor Local Poetry Month the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel at Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg will feature three talented local performers every Thursday in September.

Here is the special lineup:

September 6 -- Cecil Brooks, Anna Jones, Marty Esworthy

September 13 -- Jack Veasey, Roger Cowden, Shaashawn Dial

September 20 -- Christian Thiede, Maria Thiaw, Rick Kearns

September 27 -- Julia Tilley, John Destalo, Christine O'Leary Rockey

 

The Midtown Scholar is the largest academic used bookstore in Pennsylvania. It’s located in a renovated 1920s theater next to Harrisburg's historic Broad Street Market, just a few blocks north of the Pennsylvania State Capitol.

1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg PA 17102
717-236-1680

Parking is available on the street as well as in the parking lot behind the store.

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September: Local Poetry Month in Central Pennsylvania

September is Local Poetry Month in Harrisburg, York, and Lancaster

SouthCentral PA Local Poetry Awareness is happening this September. Get in on the movement, a joint program connecting Harrisburg, York and Lancaster versifiers. Join in, like this.
1) Bring a non-poet to a local poetry event!
2) Write a truly well crafted poem, create something you love!
3) Share the work of a local poet with a friend or family member!

Here’s where and when (York/Dauphin/Lancaster/Adams County Events).

Saturday, September 1st @ 6:00 pm
Good News Café @ 1010 S 16th St, HRRISBURG
Open Mic

Wednesday, September 5th @ 7:00 pm
Poetry Spoken Here @ YorkArts at CityArts, 118 W Philadelphia St, YORK
Feature: “The Anthology Series: Version Local” (bring the work of your favorite local poet to share)

Thursday, September 6th @ 7:00 pm
Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel @ Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North 3rd St, HARRISBURG
Featuring: Cecil Brooks, Anna Jane Jones, Marty Esworthy

Friday, September 7th @ 5:00 pm
Poets in the Street @ Downtown York First Friday, YORK
Keep an eye out through downtown, maybe even get some free poetry!
* special Local Poetry Month event

Friday, September 7th @ 6:30 pm
Poetry @ The Ragged Edge Coffeehouse, 110 Chambersberg St, GETTYSBURG
Feature: Dana Larkin Sauers and an open mic

Saturday, September 8th @ 6:00 pm
Xpress Yourself @ 1010 S 16th St, HARRISBURG
Poet led discussion group

Saturday, September 8th @ 7:30 pm
Convergence @ The Readers Café, 125 Broadway, HANOVER
Feature: Marcus Colasurdo w/ Guest Host, Carla Christopher and special appearance by Snow

Sunday, September 9th, 16th, 23rd @ 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Re-Vision Poetry Workshop @ YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St, YORK
Led by Keith Baughman, bring a poem of your own to practice the art of revision. $20 fee

Wednesday, September 12th @ 7:00 pm
Poetry @ Dogstar Books, 401 W Lemon St, LANCASTER
Feature: Dustin Nispel and open mic

Thursday, September 13th @ 7:00 pm
Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel @ Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North 3rd St, HARRISBURG
Featuring: Jack Veasey, Roger Cowden, Shaashawn Dial

Saturday, September 15th @ 6:30 pm
Beatnik Cafe @ The York Emporium, YORK
Feature: Keith Baughman with Jim Lewin as Alan Ginsberg in “The Interview”, games and movies
* special Local Poetry Month event

Wednesday, September 19th @ 6:00 pm
Poetry Potluck & Bonfire @ the home of local poet, C. Charisse, MANCHESTER
Email poetrywarrior@gmail.com with RSVP for directions or info
* special Local Poetry Month event

Thursday, September 20th @ 7:00 pm
Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel @ Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North 3rd St, HARRISBURG
Featuring: Christian Thiede, Maria Thiaw, Rick Kearns

Friday, September 21st @ 7:30 pm
Poetry. Music. Experiment. @ T.B.D., YORK
Feature: Slangston Hughes & The Baltimore Youth Slam Team and music/poetry/spoken word open mic

Saturday, September 22nd @ 6:00 pm
Poetry Potluck @ the home of local poet, Christine O’Leary-Rockey, CAMP HILL
Email poetrywarrior@gmail.com with RSVP for directions and info
* special Local Poetry Month event

Wednesday, September 26th @ 7:30 pm
Lancaster Poetry Exchange @ Barnes and Noble, 1700 H Fruitville Pike, LANCASTER
Feature: Erin Murphy from Penn State – Altoona

Thursday, September 27th @ 7:00 pm
Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel @ Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North 3rd St, HARRISBURG
Featuring: Julia Tilley, John Destalo, Christine O'Leary-Rockey

Friday, September 28th @ 7:30 pm
Poetry @ Parliament, 116 E King St, YORK
Feature: Crystal Charisse and uncensored open mic

   

hiatus 2012

July, August, September-- Summer Hiatus

Okay.

Sorry, but, here’s the deal– the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and Poetry Thursdays has has decided to take a vacation.

A real summer vacation. For the first time in 14 years we’re going to sit down, relax, read, breathe deeply, and sip margaritas in the park. Or somesuch.

You’ll probably still find us out supporting those awesome flamenco players on Thursday nights at HMAC, and we’ll be visiting our friends at numerous versification venues around the area, but we’re putting our weekly event on siesta until September.

Hope to see you then.

Deborah Filanowksi featured June 14 at Poetry Thursdays

  

Pine Grove poet, Deborah Filanowksi, will be featured at Poetry Thursdays, June 14, at the Midtown Cinema’s Reel Cafe, 250 Reily Street, Harrisburg.

She is active with Stray Dog Poets in Schuylkill County where she lives and is also associated with the BerksBards and other readings throughout Northcentral PA.

Filanowski is a native of West Virginia and has lived in PA for 30 years. She hosted a monthly poetry reading at Stonehedge Gardens for several years and was instrumental in organizing The North Eastern Pennsylvania Poetry Festival held at Stonehedge Gardens in Tamaqua from 2006 to 2009. Her book…and guppies eat their young was published by Plan B Press in conjunction with the “Lancaster OutLoud Poetry Festival” in September 2001 and a second printing was made in 2005.

Filanowski's feature presentation begins at 8pm, following an 7pm open mic. Poetry Thursdays, now into its 14th year as a weekly poetry series, is sponsored by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.

For more information: (717) 909-6566.

 

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April 26, Grant Clauser is featured

Verse with Verve

Poetry Thursdays is now in its 14th year as a weekly poetry series. It’s produced and directed by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel at the Reel Café, Midtown Cinema, 250 Reily Street. For more  information: (717) 909-6566.
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April 26-- Grant Clauser
Clauser is editor-in-chief for E-Gear magazine (a newsstand magazine about electronics) and editorial director for a Philadelphia-based publishing company. His poems have appeared in a various journals including the Maryland Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, the Heartland Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Cortland Poetry Review, the Seattle Review,  and Philadelphia Stories.

Clauser lives in Hatfield PA where he was selected as the Montgomery County Pennsylvania Poet Laureate in 2010 by Robert Bly. He earned an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University where he was a Richard Devine Fellow.

He runs the Montco Wordshop in Lansdale, a monthly workshop for area poets, and conducts workshops for the Musehouse Writing Center in Philadelphia.

Clauser also does a TV show about bass fishing. His favorite dry fly is the Parachute Adams. His favorite nymph is a basic Hare’s Ear with a brass bead. His first book, The Trouble with Rivers, was released in January of this year.

Coming Next to Poetry Thursdays--

May 3-- Mayday! reading                                                                             

May 10-- Dan Waber
May 17-- open reading
May 24-- Jack Veasey
May 31-- open reading

June 7-- open reading
June 14 --Deborah Filanowski

  

J.C. Todd and MaryAnn Miller, featured at Poetry Thursdays

   

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

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