01/31/2010 3:00 pm
01/31/2010 5:00 pm
Manayunk Art Center (MAC) hosts “Formal Poetry Is Alive and Well and at the MAC” on Sunday, January 31 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM. $4 Donation and refreshments available. 215-482-3363
The Manayunk Art Center (MAC) at 419 Green Lane (rear) is having a spirited afternoon of formal poetry with a program called “Formal Poetry Is Alive and Well and At the MAC” on Sunday, January 31, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. The event is being coordinated by Anna Evans, a well-known area formal poet, and Peter Krok, the Humanities Director of the MAC. Some other area poets included in the program are Richard Bank, Lisa Barnett, Terry Culleton, Brian Sammond and Christine Yurick.
The program will start off with a short talk by Anna Evans on two significant formal poets of the twentieth century, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Philip Larkin. Then the invited formal poets will read 2-3 poems in the spirit of the proceedings--either their own formal work or poems by formal poets they admire. After the presentation there will be an Open Mic and tthe audience is invited to share in the afternoon program by reading their formal work or their own favorite poems.
This afternoon program will serve as the springboard for a formal/metrical poetry workshop which will be held at the Manayunk Art Center and be scheduled on alternate Sundays from February through the spring. The workshop will be facilitated by Anna Evans. Space will be limited so those interested should come to the MAC on January 31 or send an email to Peter Krok at macpoet1@aol.com. Further announcements will follow.
Anna Evans is a former British citizen now residing in New Jersey. Her poems have appeared in journals such asThe Harvard Review, The Atlanta Review, and Rattle .She was a finalist for both the 2005 and 2007 Howard Nemerov sonnet award, and for the 2007 Willis Barnstone Translation Award. She is editor of the Raintown Review and editor of the formal poetry e-zine The Barefoot Muse
Peter Krok, the Humanities Director of the MAC, started his literary afternoon series at the MAC in the fall of.1990. There is a $4 donation and, of course, refreshments are provided. For information about the program, call the MAC at 215-482-3363.
