It's Hanukkah!

In 2020!!

When we can't gather in a big crowded group and eat greasy food while hovering dangerously close to many open flames!!!

So we're doing the next best thing!!!!

Join us for an evening of Jewish voices - fiction, poetry, memoir, humor, mourning, anxiety, questioning, probably some more make-you-laugh-and-break-your-heart humor. You know -Jewish writers.

On the schedule so far: Amy Small-McKinney, Anndee Hochman, Betti Kahn, Darla Himeles, Elliott batTzedek, Hanoch Guy, Mike Cohen, Nina Schafer, and Simone Zelitch. More to come!

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Philadelphia is always a surprising city - so should the surprisingly successful outcomes achieved by outsider candidates in Philadelphia elections be interpreted as representing fundamental changes in the local political environment, or simply as one-off victories? John Kromer’s insightful Philadelphia Battlefields: Disruptive Campaigns and Upset Elections in a Changing City considers key local campaigns undertaken from 1951 to 2019 that were extraordinarily successful despite the opposition of the city’s political establishment. He'll be in conversation with Heather Pierce, a Democratic Committeeperson for the 22nd Ward and an organizer of Open Wards Philly.

This is an online event. You must RSVP to receive the link: https://forms.gle/BDnHiqTAVnDGUVBc7. Books can be purchased here.

John Kromer is a planning and development consultant, an instructor in urban development policy at the University of Pennsylvania, former Director of Housing for the city of Philadelphia under Mayor Edward G. Rendell, and a participant in local political campaigns and elections. He is the author of Fixing Broken Cities: The Implementation of Urban Development Strategies and has written extensively on downtown and neighborhood development issues.

Heather Pierce is a Democratic Committeeperson for the 22nd Ward,1st Division (in which Big Blue Marble Bookstore is located). She previously served as Judge of Elections in the 1st Division, and she held this position for fourteen years. Ms. Pierce is currently co-chair of the 22nd Ward Open Caucus and sits on the Steering Committee of Open Wards Philly.

Postponed due to COVID-19 precautions. New date coming soon.

Join us for an afternoon of Immigrant stories, capturing two different experiences of people coming from the same part of the world, at our Spring Local Author Salon. Authors Benedicte Grima and Ayesha F. Hamid will be reading from their new books.

Come hear the fiction writers and poets of the Arcadia University MFA program winter residency and support the future of writing and publishing!

Big Blue Marble is thrilled to welcome poets Eleanor Wilner and Susan Roney O'Brien in celebration of their newest books.

Eleanor Wilner will be reading from "Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems" (Princeton University Press, 2019); her previous seven books of poetry include Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago) and The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon Press). She received the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America; other awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; the Juniper Prize, and three Pushcart prizes. She has taught for many years in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Susan Roney-O'Brien curates a monthly poetry venue in Worcester, Mass.; is part of 4 X 4, a group of visual artists and poets, and is the Summer Writing Series Coordinator for The Kunitz Boyhood Home. Her poetry books are Legacy of the Lost World (WordTech, 2016), Bone Circle (Aldrich Press, 2018); Thira, to be published by Kelsay Books in 2020. Her chapbooks are Farmwife, winner of the William and Kingman Page Poetry Book Award, and Earth (Cat Rock Press). Her poetry has been published widely, translated into Braille and Mandarin and nominated for seven Pushcart Prizes.

Big Blue Marble is honored to host Shelly Oria, editor of Indelible In the Hippocampus, along with #MeToo voices from Philadelphia. The event is co-hosted by Kismet Cowork and will be held in their Chestnut Hill location, 12 W Willow Grove Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19118.

"Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter,” said Dr. Christine Blasey Ford when she testified to Congress in September 2018 about the men who victimized her. That moment was searing for so many of us - a measure of the power and limits of #MeToo.

The first anthology from the MeToo movement, edited by Shelly Oria, takes its title from Dr. Blasey's testimony. Like the movement itself, the book is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry. These original texts sound the voices of black, Latinx, Asian, Filipinx, queer, and trans writers. Whether reflecting on their teen-age selves or their modern-day workplaces, each contributor approaches the subject with unforgettable authenticity and strength.

Big Blue Marble is honored to host this event. With us that night will be the book's editor, Shelly Oria, as well as authors Gina Myers, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Kim Gek Lin Short, and Christina Rosso. They'll be sharing their own work as well as thoughts on the MeToo movement at this moment.

Mt. Airy’s own Eli Goldblatt celebrates the release of his poetry collection “For Instance.” Alongside his poems, the book contains reproductions from woodcut prints by Wendy Osterweil and drawings by Michael Moore.

In a sentence, the phrase “for instance” follows an assertion or argument, and precedes a series of examples. Eli Goldblatt gives us myriad examples unconnected to a thesis, except insofar as the thesis asserts what is. This is a world composed of bombings, wars, bad history, framed in a private space of family, garden and dream-work (which often takes us back to all the bad histories). In a larger sense, the book is an elegy—for his dear friend Gil Ott, and for a world where fascists lose. But “even in Barcelona, Franco won.” “War grows” in the poet’s mind, erupting in museums and in his son, who “emerges into the sunlight stabbing, punching, blasting his enemies.” Words are like tattoos; they scar. The poet craves “a language beyond all this talk, / words erupting beneath words that evict / or seduce, dominate or sell.” Goldblatt’s book offers a public and private MRI; we do not yet have the results, so we can only hope for the best. Our best consolation may be that we have this map of one poet’s decency and care.

Big Blue Marble welcomes back poet and former staffer Kasey Jueds and two of her favorite poets, Hugo dos Santos and Leslie Shinn. Expect an evening of fearless, shimmering poetry that turns your world inside out!

Hugo dos Santos is a Luso-American writer, editor, and translator. He is the author of Then, there (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), a collection of Newark stories, and the translator of A Child in Ruins (Writ Large Press, 2016), the collected poems of José Luís Peixoto, which was a staff pick at the Paris Review Daily. Hugo has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Disquiet International Literary Program. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and won a Write Well Award, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrelhouse, Electric Literature, Hobart, Puerto del Sol, The Common, The Fanzine, and elsewhere. Hugo is a co-founder of the Brick City Collective and is associate editor at DMQ Review.

Kasey Jueds lives in Philadelphia. Her collection Keeper won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press, and was published by Pitt in fall, 2013. Her writing has appeared in many journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, Manhater tan Review, Salamander, Crab Orchard Review, Women’s Review of Books, and 5AM. She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Soapstone, and the Ucross Foundation. She’s been a visiting poet at the University of Pennsylvania, LaSalle College, and the University of Northern Colorado.

Leslie Shinn received her MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. Her collection Inside Spiders was the winner of the 2013 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. She was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and lives in Philadelphia.

Abortion is normal. Our stories are ours to tell. This is not a debate.

Big Blue Marble is proud to host #ShoutYourAbortion founder Amelia Bonow to launch the movement's first book, "Shout Your Abortion." Bonow will be joined by Seneca Joyner, Jessa Jordan, and Jenifer Groves.

When Congress began trying to defund Planned Parenthood in 2015, Amelia Bonow posted an unapologetic expose about her experience with having an abortion. Her post served as a catalyst for the viral #ShoutYourAbortion movement. Shout Your Abortion (SYA) is now both an official organization and a network of individuals sharing their abortion stories.

Their first book includes abortion stories from people all over the country, interviews with providers, and tools to help readers begin creatively organizing in their own communities. With Roe v. Wade on the brink of reversal, dismantling the compulsory silence surrounding abortion has never been more urgent.

The readings will be followed by a panel of local abortion rights groups and providers discussing current political realities. And of course we'll be raising funds to support that urgent work!

Join us for an evening of radical silence-breaking and truth-telling in support of women's right to decide for ourselves when and how and whether we will bear children.

Women are superheroes. Strength is built into every aspect of our lives. I AM STRENGTH is an anthology of true stories, poems, and art created by women from all walks of life, championing our everyday struggles and triumphs. Every woman has a song of strength to sing, and I AM STRENGTH will help amplify it!

Big Blue Marble is proud to host an afternoon of stories of women's strength with six area contributors to this new anthology:
Roya Hamadani
Dawn D'Aries
Dawn Leas
Maura Maros
Rory Kelch
Kabria Rogers

Phoenix Ash

Patricia Florio

Because we had so much fun the first two times, A Very Jewy New Year is back once more!

Join us for an evening of prose and poetry from our neighborhood's best Jewish writers - plus snacks and, of course, apples and honey to ensure a sweet start to the new year!

Scheduled readers include: B. E. Kahn, Hanoch Guy Kaner, Anndee Hochman, Amy Small-McKinney, Darla Himeles, Perry Block, Mike Cohen, Steve Levine, and Big Blue Marble's own Elliott batTzedek

Join us for a night of sparkling poetry that is Magical, Feminist, and (yes) Parasitic, featuring Grant Clauser, Daryl Sznyter, and Laurel Radzieski.

Grant Clauser is the author of four poetry books: Reckless Constellations (winner of the 2016 Cider Press Review Book Award), The Magician's Handbook (PS Books), Necessary Myths (Broadkill River Press, winner of the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize) and The Trouble with Rivers (Foothills Publishing). His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Seattle Review, Southern Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry and others. In 2010 he was the Montgomery County Poet Laureate, selected by Robert Bly. He also writes about electronics for the New York Times website Wirecutter, teaches in the Rosemont College Writers' Studio, reads poetry and craft essay submissions for Cleaver Magazine and chases trout with a stick. Grant’s blog is www.uniambic.com.

Grant Clauser’s newest collection of poems The Magician’s Handbook uses the surreal and the speculative to examine the beauty and hardship in the everyday. At once magical and mundane, these poems follow the Magician who starts as a neophyte and, like most of us hope, ends as a Magus.

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Daryl Sznyter is the author of Synonyms for (Other) Bodies (NYQ Books). Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has been published in The American Journal of Poetry, The Flexible Persona, Gravel, Phoebe, Poet Lore, WomenArts Quarterly, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from The New School. She currently resides in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where she works as a content writer and SEO Analyst. Her favorite topics are literature, psychology, feminism, art, anatomy, human sexuality, and anything she is unfamiliar with.To learn more about her visit www.darylsznyter.com/

With each poem in her debut collection, Synonyms for (OTHER) Bodies, Daryl Sznyter peels back one of the tender, horrific, humorous, and often magical veils through which we view ourselves, others, and the collective "We" that for better or worse, comprises the human race. The core she exposes may differ from person to person, but the unforgettable images—from a couple's tender moment at the gynecologist to a mother-daughter bonding experience at a concert—will fracture and restructure every reader's bones.

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Laurel Radzieski is the author of Red Mother (NYQ Books). She is a poetry editor for Clockhouse and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Golden Key, Really System, The Slag Review and other publications. Laurel earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and her poetry has been featured on the Farm/Art DTour in La Rue, Wisconsin. She has served as a teacher and has worn many hats in the theatre. Laurel lives with her husband in Northeastern Pennsylvania and can be found online at www.laurelradzieski.com.

Sometimes we all feel as if our relationships consume us. In Red Mother Laurel Radzieski weaves a love story told from the perspective of a parasite. This series of short poems explores the intimacy, desire and devotion we all experience by following the sometimes tender, often distressing relationship that emerges between a parasite and its host. Far from romanticizing either role, Red Mother takes readers on a tour of their own innards, exposing the hooks and claws of all involved.

Degrees of Writing: Tim Fitts, Kirsten Kaschock, and Cameron MacKenzie bring an evening of poetry and fiction to Big Blue Marble.

Tim Fitts

Tim Fitts is the author of two short story collections: Hypothermia (MadHat Press) an Go Home and Cry for Yourselves (Xavier Review Press), and his novel, The Soju Club, was published by Loupe in 2016 as a Korean translation.  His stories have been published by Granta, The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, among others.  He is on the editorial staff of the Painted Bride Quarter and is a frequent guest on the Painted Bride Quarterly’s podcast, SLUSH PILE.  He currently teaches in the Liberal Arts Department of the Curtis Institute of Music.

Kirsten Kaschock

Kirsten Kaschock is the author of three books of poetry: Unfathoms (Slope Editions), A Beautiful Name for a Girl (Ahsahta Press), and The Dottery, winner of the Donald Hall Prize for poetry from AWP (University of Pittsburgh Press). Her debut novel, Sleight, a work of speculative fiction, was published by Coffee House Press. A chapbook WindowBoxing is out from Bloof Books. She has earned PhDs from the University of Georgia in English and from Temple University in dance and has taught creative writing at the University of Georgia, the University of the Arts, Muhlenberg College, and St. Lawrence University. She is the editor-in-chief of thINKing DANCE (an online consortium of Philadelphia dance writers) and is on faculty at Drexel University.

Cameron MacKenzie

Cameron MacKenzie is the author of The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful Career (MadHat Press).  He has a Ph.D. in Literature and has been published in SubStance, symploke, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, Permafrost, and The Michigan Quarterly Review, and has pieces in The Waste Land at 90: A Retrospective (Rodopi 2011) and Edward P. Jones: New Essays (Whetstone 2012).

Please join us as we host poets (and editors) Berry Grass, Raena Shirali, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, and Alina Pleskova

Berry Grass has lived in Kansas City, Tuscaloosa, & now Philadelphia. Their essays & poems appear in DIAGRAM, The Normal School, Barrelhouse, and The Wanderer, among other publications. When they aren't reading submissions as Nonfiction Editor of Sundog Lit, they are embodying what happens when a Virgo watches too much professional wrestling.

Raena Shirali is the author of GILT (YesYes Books, 2017). A Pushcart Prize recipient, Shirali’s honors include a Philip Roth Residency at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry, a Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, a Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Prize, & a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Born in Houston, Texas, & raised in Charleston, South Carolina, the Indian American poet earned her MFA from The Ohio State University. She currently lives in Philadelphia, where she works for a literacy outreach nonprofit, serves as Poetry Editor for Muzzle Magazine, and is on the editorial team for Vinyl.

Kayleb Rae Candrilli is author of What Runs Over with YesYes Books, which is a 2017 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in transgender poetry. Candrilli serves as an assistant poetry editor for BOAAT Press and they hold an MFA and an MLIS from the University of Alabama. They live in Philadelphia with their partner.

Alina Pleskova is: a poet, editor, switch, badly in need of a haircut. Alina Pleskova was: a Hebrew school dropout, recently commended for being good company on long car rides, not made in America. What Urge Will Save Us, her first chapbook, was published by Spooky Girlfriend Press in April 2017. She's at alinapleskova.com but, truthfully, often misses having a livejournal.

Please join us for an evening of great writing with Split Lip Press, featuring Sara La Cotti, Rachel Milligan, Ryan Eckes, Sam Herschel Wein. Hosted by Split Lip Press editor Amanda Miska.

Sara La Cotti is a current NEOMFA student at Cleveland State University for Creative Nonfiction. Her work is upcoming in a summer issue of Split Lip Magazine. When not writing, Sara is usually napping.

 Rachel Milligan is the author of Queen Carrion, chosen by Mary Ruefle as a finalist in the BOAAT Press 2015 Summer Chapbook Competition. She graduated from Temple University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship Program in Chinese. Her work can be found in Sixth Finch, The Iowa Review, BOAAT, smoking glue gun, and elsewhere.

Dina L. Relles lives and writes in rural Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Atticus Review, matchbook, Paper Darts, CHEAP POP, Barrelhouse online, and River Teeth, among others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is a prose poetry reader at Pithead Chapel and penning her first book—a memoir in micro-prose. Find her at www.dinarelles.com or @DinaLRelles.

Ryan Eckes  is a poet from Philadelphia. His other books include Valu-Plus and Old News (Furniture Press 2014, 2011) and General Motors (Split Lip Press, 2018). He has worked as an adjunct professor at many colleges and in recent years as a labor organizer in education. He was the recipient of a 2016 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. 

 Sam Herschel Wein  lives in Chicago and specializes in aimless frolicking. He is a poetry editor for The Blueshift Journal and is co-founder of a new journal, Underblong. Recent work has appeared in Vinyl Poetry, Pretty Owl Poetry, and Connotation Press, among others. His chapbook, Fruit Mansion, won the 2017 Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest from Split Lip Press.

Big Blue Marble is thrilled to host poets Robin Becker, Cynthia Arrieu-King, and Charlotte Boulay. Robin will be bringing her newest book, “The Black Bear Inside Me,” which celebrates the interconnectedness of creatures and places in a world in which much will turn out precarious, illusory, or provisional.

Robin Becker received the Lambda Award in Poetry for All-American Girl and held fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard. Her books include Tiger Heron, Domain of Perfect Affection, The Horse Fair, and Giacometti’s Dog. Professor Emeritus of English and Women’s Studies at Penn State, Becker serves as poetry and contributing editor for The Women’s Review of Books.

Cynthia Arrieu-King was raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and earned her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. A former Kundiman Fellow, Arrieu-King is the author of the poetry chapbook The Small Anything City (2006) and the full-length poetry collections People Are Tiny in Paintings of China (2010) and Manifest (2013). With Sophia Kartsonis, she coauthored the chapbook By Some Miracle a Year Lousy with Meteors (2013). She also cowrote the collection Unlikely Conditions (1913 Press, 2016) with the late Hillary Gravendyk. Arrieu-King is an assistant professor at Stockton University.

Charlotte Boulay grew up in the Boston area and attended St. Lawrence University. She earned her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she taught composition and creative writing for five years. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, The Boston Review, and Crazyhorse, among other journals. Foxes on the Trampoline is her first book, and was published in April 2014 by Ecco Press/HarperCollins. She lives with her husband in Philadelphia.

Big Blue Marble is proud to welcome two important voices exploring extinction and survival: poet Darla Himeles, author of Flesh Enough, and paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, author of Why Dinosaurs Matter. Both will be exploring what poet Himeles describes as “the Anthropocene’s last sunlit hours” within Lacovara’s understanding that “only the past provides the broad view that we desperately need to prepare for the future.”

Darla Himeles, a Mt. Airy-based poet, translator, and essayist, can be read in recent issues of Women's Review of Books, American Poetry Review, and Pittsburgh Poetry Review. Darla holds an MFA in poetry and poetry in translation from Drew University. She is currently a doctoral student in American literature at Temple University.


Dr. Kenneth Lacovara has unearthed some of the largest dinosaurs ever to walk our planet, including the super-massive Dreadnoughtus, which at 65 tons weighs more than seven T. rex. In his quest to understand these titanic creatures that strain the human imagination, Lacovara blends exploration in remote locations across the globe with the latest imaging and modeling techniques from engineering to medicine. By using 3D imaging, 3D printing, robotics, and medical modeling techniques, his work is helping to shift our perspective of giant herbivorous dinosaurs from their historic portrayal as hapless lumbering prey to that of fearsome, hulking, hyper-efficient eating machines that deserve our awe and respect. Lacovara’s TED Talk, “Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the Universe,” was among the Top 10 TED Talks of 2016.

Lacovara led the effort to create the Edelman Fossil Park in New Jersey. Within its quarry, Lacovara and his team are using a rich cache of 65 million year old fossils to solve the mystery of the extinction of the dinosaurs. He holds a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Delaware. At Rowan University he is the founding Dean of the School of Earth & Environment and Director of the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park.

Please join us for a night of two great poets and literary critics - Steph Burt and Philly's own Daisy Fried.

Big Blue Marble is thrilled to welcome back the always talented MFA students from the program at Arcadia University. Want to hear the writers that will be claiming prizes a few years from now? Come on out!

Big Blue Marble welcomes back poet and novelist Baron Wormser, and welcomes home to Philly poet Jeanne Marie Beaumont. Wormser will be reading from his novel, “Tom o’Vietnam,” and Beaumont from her new collection, "Letters from Limbo."

Baron Wormser’s fifteenth book, Tom o’ Vietnam, traces the travels of a Vietnam vet in the fall of 1982. Tom o’ Vietnam is a very American road novel but also an evocation and investigation of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Tom o’ Vietnam blends poetry, history, and dark wit, as it bears witness to the depths of eloquence and grief, anger and endurance.

In Beaumont’s new book, "Letters from Limbo," voices of the dead reach the living through various means, including the titular letters, revealing experiences harrowing and mysterious. Fluent in many modes, the poet commands varied poetic forms both illuminating and celebrating the haunting truth of our unpredictable earthly sojourn as we dwell in metaphorical limbo.

Join us as we help poet Hanoch Guy-Kaner launch his two new poetry collections. He'll be joined by neighborhood favorite Mike Cohen.

How does one express reverence and gratitude in a world without God? That question is at the core of Herb Levine's bilingual collection of prayers and poems, Words for Blessing the World.  The book resonates with traditional Jewish liturgy even as it observes the world through a distinctly modern lens. The poems deal with the theological, the political, and the personal and is presented in both Hebrew and English, anchoring the collection deep within the Jewish tradition.

“A learned and sincere engagement with Jewish tradition. the author suggests that we can pray ‘in a world without a master.’ The poems express a faith that is committed to human evolution toward more compassion, love, unity and justice. The poems are resonant with Biblical poetry and story. The Hebrew is elegant and prayerful. A gracious and powerful spiritual tool for our time.” — Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg, author, God Loves the Stranger: Stories, Poems and Prayers

HERBERT LEVINE is the author of several works on the intersection of spirituality, religion and poetry: Sing Unto God A New Song: A Contemporary Reading of the Psalms (Indiana U Press), Yeats’s Daimonic Renewal (UMI Press) and seminal essays on Whitman’s “Song of Myself ” in Whitman’s Song of Myself (Chelsea House). His first poem was published in 1992; this is his first volume of poetry.

In Real American: a memoir, Julie Lythcott-Haims stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of an African-American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called "micro" aggressions in addition to blunt force insults can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. REAL AMERICAN expresses also, through Lythcott-Haims’s path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered "the other."

Philly writer Lise Funderburg, one of the definitive voices exploring biraciality in America, will be interviewing Julie to extend this necessary conversation. Lise's first book, a collection of oral histories, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity was the first to explore the lives of adult children of black-white unions.

Big Blue Marble welcomes local poet Jaz and celebrates her first full-length poetry collection, Serenading Flowers: A Book of Dedications.

Jaz says, "Throughout my life and career as a writer, I've always used my poetry to encourage and uplift humanity. This book of poetry does just that for the reader. I write for friends, family, strangers and all living things including plants, animals and Mother Earth."

Join us to celebrate an esteemed group of writers from the Writer's Foundry graduate program in Brooklyn.

Featuring readings by:

Charlie Walters
Francisco Franklin
Hanan Mahbouba
Hannah Wood
Juliany Taveras
Kofi Antwi
Kourtney Fullard
Lorraine Rice
Maleka Fruean
Sally White
Tariq Shah

There will be a reception with light fare and drinks, and a break in the middle between readers.

There will be more readings and events throughout the year with the Writer's Foundry.