01/10/2010 3:00 pm
01/10/2010 5:00 pm
Manayunk Art Center located at 419 Green Lane (rear) in Manayunk is offering a special program "A Philadelphia Poets Journal Reading: Six Ethnic Poets” on Sunday, January 10, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM. The six featured poets are: Andy Macera, Manya Bean, Beth Phillips Brown, Maria Ligos, Emiliano Martin, and Awilda I. Castro Suarez. $4 donation requested. Light refreshments served.
The writers in the Philadelphia Poets represent many different cultures—Italian, Greek, Welsh, Spanish, and Puerto Rican—and while their experiences either as immigrants or the children of immigrants are similar, the expressions of their feelings are unique and individual, and also quite powerful. In some cases, the poets will read in their original language as well as in English.
Manya Bean, Ph.D. has a book of poetry entitled Too Shy to Surrender. Her poems have appeared in various anthologies and journals including Philadelphia Poets. She is a holistic psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Kennett Square, PA.
Beth Phillips Brown is a poet and storyteller in the Welsh and Celtic tradition. Her most recent poetry chapbook is Book of Enchantments (Foothills Publishing). A fluent Welsh speaker, a teaching artist, and a 2002 PCA Folk Arts Performing Traditions fellowship recipient, she has been published in a variety of magazines. She is the editor and publisher of Gwasg Cwtsh y Bardd (The Bard’s Cupboard Press).
Maria Ligos’ poetry has been previously published or forthcoming in Mad Poets Review, Philadelphia Stories, The Mid-America Poetry Review, and Exit 13. By day she works as a Microbiologist in a public health lab. She lives and writes in the Philadelphia area.
Andy Macera lives in West Chester, PA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pearl, Mudfish, Slant, Plainsongs, Mad Poets Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, Barbaric Yawp, Freefall, and Ibbetson Street.
Emiliano Martin is the founder and former director of the Philadelphia Poetry Forum and a past president of the Latin American Guild for the Arts. He has authored nine chapbooks of poetry and a large collection of poems in his native Spanish, as well as many “letters to the editor,” published by The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Bucks County Courier Times. He has read widely at schools and other venues in the area.
Awilda I. Castro Suarez has a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Communication from the University of Puerto Rico and a Master’s Degree in Spanish Journalism from Florida International University. She lives in Reading, PA in a red house with her dog, Meche, and cat, Frida. Her poems have appeared in Mad Poets Review, Off the Coast, Struggle, and others. Loneliness Country, her first book of poetry, has been published in a handcrafted edition.
For further information, call Peter Krok, Humanities Director, Manayunk Art Center, at 215-482-3363, or Rosemary Cappello, Editor of Philadelphia Poets, at 215-568-1145.
