Poetry Galore. July. A Month of Open Mics at the Scholar

                     July! A month of open poetry readings.
                                 
                                                July 6, an open poetry reading, 7--9 pm.
                                  Ditto: open mics on July 13, July 20 and July 27.
                 Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 N. Third Street,
                                                Harrisburg, PA, 17102. More info, 717.236.1680.

                                                               

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June 1, Open Poetry Reading at Midtown Scholar

On the first of June, there will be an open mic at Poetry Thursdays, a weekly verse series held at the Midtown Scholar.

June is bustin' out all over! If it seems different than the rest of Cornwall, that’s because it’s a month. not a geographic entity. Because it's not man-made, or a result of china clay mining.

So, why not write about Cornwall? The aqua-blue "lakes" are clay slurry and the "mountains" and ridges are waste heaps. This kind of clay, which is ideal for making high-quality ceramic porcelain, was a particularly hot commodity in the early 1900s. Cornwall is home to the largest known deposit of the clay in the world.

Meanwhile, back in the Quaker State-- the aforementioned open mic runs from 7 to 9 pm. 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.

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June 6, Patricia Lockwood will be performing at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 N. Third St. Harrisburg PA, Phone:717.236.1680. https://plus.google.com/u/0/
June 22-- Gary (GMill) Miller will be featured performer.

Marforie Maddox Reads New Work, May 11, at Midtown Scholar Bookstore

MAY 11th: MARJORIE MADDOX to SHARES NEW TALES at the MIDTOWN SCHOLAR

  Marjorie Maddox, director of the creative writing program at Lock Haven University. will be performing her work May 11, at the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel continuing reading series
in part to promote her new short story collection What She Was Saying,
available now from Fomite Press. Partly, just for fun.

  Maddox has published eleven collections of poetry including  Weeknights at the Cathedral (WordTech 2006);Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (2004 Yellowglen Prize); When The Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems (2001 Redgreene Press Chapbook Winner); Body Parts (Anamnesis Press 1999); Ecclesia (Franciscan University Press, 1997); How to Fit God into a Poem (1993 Painted Bride Chapbook Winner); and Nightrider to Edinburgh (1986 Amelia Chapbook Winner), as well as verse and essays in numerous journals and anthologies.

  Maddox has written children’s poetry books including Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems (2009, illustrated by John Sandford) and A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry (2008, illustrated by Philip Huber), as well as her work  included in the children’s poetry anthology Hey, You!: Poems to Skyscrapers, Mosquitoes, and Other Fun Things (2007).

This reading series' event, hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel, takes place at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 N. Third Street, Harrisburg, PA, 17102. An open reading will precede the feature presentation. May 11. 7--9 pm. More information, 717.236.1680.
  See also:
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                    www.midtownscholar.com

Coming attractions to the Scholar include: May 25, D.M. Spitzer; June 6, Patricia Lockward (Main Stage); June 8, Barbara Crooker; and June 22, Gary Miller.
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Maria James-Thiaw, featured April 20, at the Midtown Scholar

April 20, at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Maria James-Thiaw
will be the featured poet. Poetry Thursdays, a continuing series ishosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.

James-Thiaw is an award-winning poet, performer, and professor. Her publications include poetry and reviews in several literary journals such as New Letters, Cutthroat Journal of the Arts, One Trick Pony Review,
and Black Magnolias as well as a spoken word CD, FREEverse,
and four amazing verse collections:

Windows to the Soul (Shippensburg University Press, 1999),

Rising Waters (Shippensburg University Press, 2003),

Talking “White” (postDada Press, 2013).

Mocha Musings is forthcoming from Community Arts Ink.

This event is hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.
The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is located at 1302 North 3rd Street,
across from the Broad Street Market, Harrisburg, PA 17102,
Phone:717.236.1680.

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