[from the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel site:]
August 24, 2006:
Poetry Reading by Claude Lewis.
Claude Lewis, Esq. is currently a partner with Michak Teeter & Lewis LLC, and his practice includes real estate, commercial transactions, non-profit corporations and business related matters and, in addition, business consulting. He is engaged in several activities including membership in the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Nathanial Gadsden’s Writer’s Wordshop. Currently he is a member of the Board of Directors of Zion Academy.
Lewis has been involved in poetry presentations at the Whitaker Center, East Shore Library and Black history programs for various State Agencies including the Departments of Community and Economic Development, Environmental Protection, Education, Revenue the Office of the Auditor General and the Public Utility Commission. Claude Lewis is our current Poet Laureate of Harrisburg!
Poetry Thursdays are held at the Susquehanna Art Museum, 301 Market Street, downtown Harrisburg, 7- 8:45 pm, presented by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and hosted by Marty Esworthy.
8/1/06
Friday Poetry Reading: Wilkes-Barre: 8/21/06
[Source: Paper Kite Press Announce]
Friday Open Mic @ Paper Kite Press Studio
This month's "Third Friday" open mic is set for August 21st at 7 PM.
Location: 156 S. Franklin Street, 2nd floor studio, in Wilkes-Barre.
Information: (570) 328-8658
Join us on August 21st for two fabulous spoken word artists from the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel: Julia Tilley and Maria C. James!
Friday Open Mic @ Paper Kite Press Studio
This month's "Third Friday" open mic is set for August 21st at 7 PM.
Location: 156 S. Franklin Street, 2nd floor studio, in Wilkes-Barre.
Information: (570) 328-8658
Join us on August 21st for two fabulous spoken word artists from the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel: Julia Tilley and Maria C. James!
Butterfly Poetry Festival: Penn State-Hazleton: 8/20/06
[passing this along:]
This year's Butterfly Poetry Festival, which will be held at the Hazleton Campus of Penn State, will feature a gathering of Pennsylvania Poets Laureate. There is a luncheon for all attending poets at 1:00 PM, followed by [one presumes] a reading at 2:00 PM. This event is expected to run until 3:30 or 4 PM.
Contact: Salvadore DeFazio, 570-455-3963.
This year's Butterfly Poetry Festival, which will be held at the Hazleton Campus of Penn State, will feature a gathering of Pennsylvania Poets Laureate. There is a luncheon for all attending poets at 1:00 PM, followed by [one presumes] a reading at 2:00 PM. This event is expected to run until 3:30 or 4 PM.
Contact: Salvadore DeFazio, 570-455-3963.
Open reading: Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg: 8/17/06
[from the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel site:]
August 17, 2006: Open Poetry Reading
Poetry Thursdays are held at the Susquehanna Art Museum, 301 Market Street, downtown Harrisburg, 7- 8:45 pm, presented by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and hosted by Marty Esworthy.
August 17, 2006: Open Poetry Reading
Poetry Thursdays are held at the Susquehanna Art Museum, 301 Market Street, downtown Harrisburg, 7- 8:45 pm, presented by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and hosted by Marty Esworthy.
Wes Ward & Elizabeth Morris: Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg: 8/10/06
[from the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel site:]
August 10, 2006: Poetry Reading by Wes Ward and Elizabeth Morris
Wes Ward grew up in Alaska and moved to York, PA when he was in junior high school. He earned a BA in Secondary Education-English from York College. He currently teaches English at Cedar Cliff High School in Camp Hill. Brand New Fence is his first collection of poetry.
Elizabeth Morris has been writing poetry for a long time, during most of which the poetry was not good. In the '05-'06 school year, she won two gold awards on the national level of the Scholastic Writing Competition. She then performed at Slam 7 this summer and won tenth place. She was the youngest person there. Elizabeth hopes to keep writing for the rest of her life and eventually make a living from it.
Poetry Thursdays are held at the Susquehanna Art Museum, 301 Market Street, downtown Harrisburg, 7- 8:45 pm, presented by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and hosted by Marty Esworthy.
August 10, 2006: Poetry Reading by Wes Ward and Elizabeth Morris
Wes Ward grew up in Alaska and moved to York, PA when he was in junior high school. He earned a BA in Secondary Education-English from York College. He currently teaches English at Cedar Cliff High School in Camp Hill. Brand New Fence is his first collection of poetry.
Elizabeth Morris has been writing poetry for a long time, during most of which the poetry was not good. In the '05-'06 school year, she won two gold awards on the national level of the Scholastic Writing Competition. She then performed at Slam 7 this summer and won tenth place. She was the youngest person there. Elizabeth hopes to keep writing for the rest of her life and eventually make a living from it.
Poetry Thursdays are held at the Susquehanna Art Museum, 301 Market Street, downtown Harrisburg, 7- 8:45 pm, presented by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and hosted by Marty Esworthy.
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