New Philadelphia Poets

Angel's "Crush"

Be sure to check out Angel Hogan’s memoir piece, Crush, in the new issue of Quay Journal. You can read it online!

Photos: Iijima & Morrison

Brenda Iijima 

Brenda Iijima

Yedda Morrison (photo credit: Brian Melton)

Yedda Morrison

The audience

A big thank you to Fergies Pub and Ryan Eckes for helping make the night happen- and of course to Brenda Iijima and Yedda Morrison for sharing their amazing work with Philly.  

NPP around the web

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Debrah Morkun has new work in Parcel Five, Crossing Rivers Into Twilight, and Venereal Kittens.

Patrick Lucy has an audio recording of IN PUBLIC up on _Catch/Confetti. (Text of poem here).

Jamie Townsend has new work in Diagram magazine and the (forthcoming) Spring issue of Fact-Simile. 

Angel Hogan has a memoir piece in the Spring issue of Quay Journal (out in about a week). 

Greg Bem released his e-chapbook called Toward Pandemic! on Lone Byte Press.

MAY 23: Poetry Double-Header

Join us Saturday at 5 pm at Fergies Pub (upstairs) for a reading by Brenda Iijima and Yedda Morrison.

Afterwards we’ll walk a few blocks to the Chapterhouse Cafe for the Chapter and Verse reading series featuring Frank Sherlock and Simon Pettet.

Brenda Iijima is the author of Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press) and Around Sea (O Books). Forthcoming works include revv. you’ll—ution (Displace Press) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press). She writes about animal-ability. She lives in Brooklyn and runs Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.

Montreal based writer and visual artist Yedda Morrison was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her books include Darkness (chapter 1) (Little Red Leaves, 2009) (PDF available here), Girl Scout Nation (Displaced Press, 2008), My Pocket Park (Dusie Press, 2007), Co (Collaborations with Bruce Andrews, Roof Books, 2006) and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). How Flora Became An Ornament is forthcoming from Make Now Press in Los Angeles. Morrison has exhibited her visual work throughout the US and Canada and is currently represented by Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC.

Frank Sherlock is a native Philadelphian, author of Over Here and Ready-To-Eat Individual, a collaboration written with Brett Evans about New Orleans in the Year 1 A.K. (After Katrina). You can listen to his work at PennSound.

Simon Pettet is a poet from New York. HEARTH, a book that collects his decades’ worth of poetry, was recently published. You can read an interview with Pettet in last month’s Brooklyn Rail.

Inq. Ink Link

John Timpane penned a brief overview of the Philly poetry scene (no small feat) for an article in last Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer.

The New Philadelphia Poets were mentioned along with a host of great groups and reading series. Have a look if you missed it- it’s available online. 

Weekend Events

Here’s what we’ll be doing this weekend- will you join us?

Friday 4/17

NPP Patrick Lucy will be reading at a gallery opening with Dilruba Ahmed, Kristine Grow, Deidra Lyngard, Mary Brownell, Iain Haley Pollock, and Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore in the Barbara Crawford Art Gallery at Chestnut Hill Academy from 6-7 pm. The show explores the relationship between visual art and poetry and features broadsides of the poets’ work. 

Moles Not Molar make this Friday a little more awesome over at the the Crane Arts building with poets Kate Colby and Jason Zuzga and a special screening of Jacques Cousteau’s “Golden Fish”. The whole thing kicks off at 7:30 pm. 

Saturday 4/18

NPP Angel Hogan will be representing Philadelphia in the Philadelphia Vs Chicago Story Slam at the Free Library Festival. Joyce Carol Oates will be “opening” for the event. The slam begins at 5 pm. Come out and support our home team!

And finally, a rare glimpse of Snuffluffigus:

Join us this Sunday

It’s a GREAT weekend for Poetry:

After catching readings from the likes of Debrah Morkun, CA Conrad, Frank Sherlock, Paul Siegell, and Ryan Eckes this Saturday (12-5) at the 2nd Annual Light of Unity Arts Festival, head over to the University City Arts League at 7 to hear Calos Soto, Ish Klein and Patrick Lucy share their work. 

Then, on Sunday, join us for a special event at Germ Books in Fishtown: 

AN AUDIO-VISUAL PERFORMO-READING and OPEN MIC
with the New Philadelphia Poets
Sunday, March 29th | 7:00 pm
Germ Books + Gallery
2005 Frankford Avenue | Philadelphia, PA 19125
(Fishtown, near the Berks stop on the Market-Frankford Line)

Join the New Philadelphia Poets for an evening of verse, pictures, music and noise as together we embrace the wonders of multimedia.

FREE WINE and OPEN MIC to follow!