We are postponing this reading, in light of the need to focus on the urgent issues of race, racism, and police violence at this time. Please take care of yourselves and each other, and step up to end white supremacy.

Mondays @ The Marble

a curated series of the best of our neighborhood authors

Voices from the #MeToo Movement

with Marion Cohen, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, and Christina Rosso-Schneider

Monday June 8

7pm on Zoom

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We live in a rapist culture, seduction culture, assault culture, harassment culture, sexist culture, oversexed culture. Some have been actually raped, physically assaulted or harassed, some not, but very likely everyone has experienced unwanted sexual activity, and that affects the course of our lives and the life of our society. One way to counteract this is through raising consciousness, and one way to raise consciousness is to write and read. This event features three writers who will read from their “#MeToo writings”, writings which add their voices to the world’s literature on this important issue.

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Marion Deutsche Cohen, The Discontinuity At the Waistline: Me #MeToo Poems

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Blue Talk and Love: Stories

Indelible In the Hippocampus: Writings From the Me Too Movement

A dynamic shared reading by four Lucia Press poets: J.C. Todd, Dagmar Iris Holl, Vasiliki Katsarou, and MaryAnn L. Miller.

The evening will close with a mini-prompt/write together. We'll have a mini-prompt if you would like to write with us as we culminate the reading.

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NEW LOCATION! For the summer Poetry Aloud & Alive will be meeting at Mt. Airy Nexus, 520 Carpenter Lane. This is across the street and a bit down the block from the store. The space is air conditioned and accessible.

NEW LOCATION! For the summer Poetry Aloud & Alive will be meeting at Mt. Airy Nexus, 520 Carpenter Lane. This is across the street and a bit down the block from the store. The space is air conditioned and accessible.

NEW LOCATION! For the summer Poetry Aloud & Alive will be meeting at Mt. Airy Nexus, 520 Carpenter Lane. This is across the street and a bit down the block from the store. The space is air conditioned and accessible.

Welcome to 2019. We made it! To celebrate, we are hosting our first Thirty West Presents back at Big Blue Marble Bookstore with a new look and style. Any medium is accepted! Bring your friends, family, musical instruments named Betty to our open mic, but you must first listen to three marvelous writers, Christopher D. DiCicco, Alison Myers, and The Carlton! Sign up's are at 6:30, reading at 7. BYOB.

Bios:

Christopher D. DiCicco is a high school creative writing teacher and the author of So My Mother, She Lives in the Clouds and other stories (Hypertrophic Press). His teaching has been nominated for Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year--and his writing has been nominated for Pushcarts, Best of the Net, Best Indie Lit New England, The Million Writers Award, and semifinalist for Best of Small Fictions. His work has appeared in such places as Superstition Review, Maudlin House, and Gigantic Sequins. He is currently at work on a new collection of ghost and world-ending stories.

Alison Myers teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. Her work has been published by SWWIM Every Day, trampset, The Esthetic Apostle, Lady Blue Literary Arts Journal, and great weather for MEDIA in their most recent anthology, Suitcase of Chrysanthemums (2018). Although she has studied philosophy and Italian literature, she prefers to play adequate acoustic guitar and get kicked out of art museums for staying too late. She currently lives in “Coastal Philadelphia” (New Jersey) with a bad little dog & an overgrown garden and is working on her first (& second) chapbook(s). Follow her on Twitter @amyersatz

The Carlton is a Performance Poet originally from Upstate NY that cut His poetic teeth the day He realized Morrissey, Comic Books and PT Barnum might be better creative influences than Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda and Emily Dickinson. While most poets were scrambling to be published by cool alt. lit publications and small press publishers, The Carlton was getting sponsored by a board game cafe in Northeast Pennsylvania. His first chapbook, #%$&ing Rockstar, is available pretty much wherever you can find The Carlton. Currently, you can find Him living in The Poconos trying to figure out how He can sell enough copies of His book to buy another pair of new sneakers or not.

Everyone's favorite neighborhood poetry gathering. Poetry Aloud & Alive. Featured reader is Nathalie Anderson.

Each month has a different featured reader always followed by an open mic.

Everyone's favorite neighborhood poetry gathering. Poetry Aloud & Alive. Featured reader will be announced soon.

Each month has a different featured reader always followed by an open mic.

Everyone's favorite neighborhood poetry gathering. Poetry Aloud & Alive. Featured reader is Hayden Saunier.

Each month has a different featured reader always followed by an open mic.

Everyone's favorite neighborhood poetry gathering. Poetry Aloud & Alive. Featured reader is Bob Murken.

Each month has a different featured reader always followed by an open mic.

Everyone's favorite neighborhood poetry gathering. Poetry Aloud & Alive. Featured reader will be announced soon.

Each month has a different featured reader always followed by an open mic.

Everyone's favorite neighborhood poetry gathering. Poetry Aloud & Alive. Featured reader is Kevin Grant

Each month has a different featured reader always followed by an open mic.

Everyone's favorite neighborhood poetry gathering. Poetry Aloud & Alive. Featured readers are Ona Gritz & Dan Simpson.

Each month has a different featured reader always followed by an open mic.

Celebrate Friday the 13th with Citizen Lit's Jim Warner and his special guest writer Amanda Miska. It's an evening of fiction and poetry to celebrate Jim Warner's latest release, Actual Miles. Poetry/flash fiction open mic to kick off the night with limited sign-ups. The event is free and open to the public.

Part travelogue, part power pop catharsis, Actual Miles is Jim Warner's third collection of poetry and his first book in nearly a decade. Criss-crossing Rust Belt mining towns and Filipino rice paddies, Actual Miles finds Warner disassembling home and extracting language from record grooves and Mason jars to reclaim his identity as a bastard son of the highway.

"With Actual Miles, Jim Warner is all texture, flavor, and heart, a shock of senses and cultures, and always searching for family and identity, and the best ways to make them sing."
–Ben Tanzer, author of Be Cool, Sex and Death, and host This Podcast Will Change Your Life.

“Jim Warner’s newest poetry collection, Actual Miles, embodies Galway Kinnell’s famous line about time: '...Everything he loved was made of it.' ... this collection refuses to let go with its close-up and hold-up descriptions that embraced existence where mornings are brick-red, hearts are trapped in durian rinds, and elegies come second-hand.”

–Charlotte Pence, author of Many Small Fires

Author Bios:

Amanda Miska is the publisher of Split Lip Press. She writes stories and essays in the Philly suburbs and you can read these and more at http://amandamiska.com/

Jim Warner's poetry has appeared in various journals including The North American Review, RHINO Poetry, New South, and is the host of the literary podcast Citizen Lit. Jim is a faculty member of Arcadia University's MFA program. Actual Miles is his third book of poetry.

Everyone's favorite neighborhood poetry gathering. Poetry Aloud & Alive. Featured reader is Big Blue Marble own's Elliott batTzedek.

Each month has a different featured reader always followed by an open mic.