Tuesday, September 21st, 6pm
The New Philadelphia Poets Present Nicholas A. DeBoer, Peter Davis, Jennifer L. Knox, & Shana Compton.
This all happens at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, at 6pm.
Here’s some info about the night’s fabulous readers:
Nicholas A. DeBoer: On October 30, 1952, his parents were born in separate cities, twelve hours apart. Mine was on the 23rd, WSB’s #. EzPo in 1887, me in 1981 (94 years). The SI supported the barricades as long as they could, hands like miniature infidels, 1968 (13 years). Tumbled out in the middle of the night, without any breath in the lungs…. Policy Wonk degree from WMU (2004), the rest from JKDP (2008). Ushered White Waiting (2009) available from Con/Crescent Press. Published poems in Fact-Simile, Bombay Gin, In Stereo Press and other(s). My poem of some length caught in the graveyard, a tarantula on the right shoulder, inking venom into a tattoo: ‘ante mortem no scortum’” www.concrescentpress.org
JENNIFER L. KNOX was born in Lancaster, California—home to Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Space Shuttle. Her other
…books of poems, Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, are also available through Bloof. A volume of her verse in German, Wir Fürchten Uns,is available through Lux Books. Her poems have appeared in three volumes of the Best American Poetry series, Best
American Erotic Poems, Great American Prose Poems: From Poet to Present, and Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books. One of Jen’s poems recently appeared in The New Yorker. http://www.jenniferlknox.com/
PETER DAVIS writes, draws, and makes music in Muncie, Indiana, with his sweet kids and sweet wife. His first book of poetry is Hitler’s Mustache (2007), and he edited Poet’s Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books That Shaped Their Art (2005) and coedited Poet’s Bookshelf II (2008) with Tom Koontz, all from Barnwood Press. He teaches English at Ball State University. Poems from Peter’s new book Poetry! Poetry! Po…etry! are forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2010, edited by Amy Gerstler & David Lehman. http://artisnecessary.com/
SHANNA COMPTON’s books include For Girls (& Others) (Bloof, 2007), Down Spooky (Winnow, 2005), Gamers (Soft Skull, 2004), and several chapbooks, including a new one called Good Morning, Romantics (Bloof, 2010). Her third poetry collection, The Seam Rovers, is forthcoming from Bloof Books in February 2011. New poems have appeared or are forthcoming in No Tell Motel, The Black Warrior Review, Dusie, The Equalizer, and LIT. http://www.shannacompton.com/
