Dec. 5: Bell, Sims & Massey
On Saturday, December 5th at 7 PM the New Philadelphia Poets will host a poetry reading featuring guests Laura Sims and Joseph Massey, as well as NPP member Marion Bell, at Fergies Pub (upstairs), 1214 Sansom St. Philadelphia, PA. Patrick Lucy and Jamie Townsend will MC.
Laura Sims is the author of two books of poetry: Stranger (Fence Books, 2009); and Practice, Restraint (Fence Books, Alberta Prize, 2005); and of four chapbooks, including Corrections (Bronze Skull Press, 2006) and Bank Book (Answer Tag Press, 2004). Her work was included in the anthology, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books, 2007), and individual poems have appeared in the journals: Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Aufgabe, Crayon, CAB/NET, Octopus, First Intensity, 26, How2, Parcel, 6X6, La Petite Zine, Columbia Poetry Review, jubilat, LIT, andFence, among others.
Joseph Massey was born in 1978 in Chester, Pennsylvania, and has spent the last seven years in Humboldt County, California, where all of the poems in Areas of Fog—his first full-length collection—were written, as well as the chapbooks Minima St. (Range: 2003), Eureka Slough (Effing Press: 2005),Bramble (Hot Whiskey: 2005), Property Line (Fewer & Further Press: 2006), November Graph (Longhouse: 2007), Within Hours (The Fault Line Press: 2008), and Out of Light (Kitchen Press: 2008). His work has appeared in various journals and magazines, including The Nation, Northwest Review, andAmerican Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, among many others.
