Musehouse Winter Offerings

Check out the offerings for winter workshops at Musehouse.
Memoir, poetry, book-making–and more.
http://www.musehousecenter.com/Musehouse_Winter_2014.pdf
Musehouse is located in Mt. Airy.

Review of David Groff’s CLAY

December 13, 2013 is our next Poetdelphia Salon. Read a review of one of our guests, David Groff, at this link: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/09/16/clay-by-david-groff/

Groff, Parker, and Eckes on December 13th

We’re happy to announce Poetdelphia’s December 13th Reading and Salon line-up:

DAVID GROFF, RYAN ECKES & SUZANNE PARKER!

Time and Place:
Friday, December 13, 2013
6:30 – 8:00 pm
at Cups & Chairs Tea Cafe
701-03 S. 5th Street
(just below 5th and South)

DAVID GROFF is a poet, writer, independent book editor, literary scout, and teacher. His book of poems, Clay (Trio House Press, 2013) was chosen by Michael Waters as winner of the Louise Bogan Award. His previous collection, Theory of Devolution (University of Illinois Press, 2002) was selected by Mark Doty for the National Poetry Series and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle awards. He has co-edited two anthologies, Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners, and Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS. He completed the book The Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood for its author, the late Robin. David has received residencies from the Anderson Center, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Ragdale, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. A graduate of Princeton and the Iowa Writers Workshop, he teaches in the M.F.A. creative writing program of the City College of New York.

RYAN ECKES lives in South Philadelphia. He’s the author of Old News (Furniture Press, 2011), Valu-Plus (forthcoming, Furniture Press, 2014), and other books. Recent work has appeared in The Rumpus,OnandOnScreen, GlitterPony, COYDUP, and Jupiter 88. He works as an adjunct at Temple University and Community College of Philadelphia. (Here’s Eckes’ recent poem in The Rumpus: http://therumpus.net/2012/03/into-a-film-a-rumpus-original-poem-by-ryan-eckes/)

SUZANNE PARKER is a winner of the Kinereth Gensler Book Award; her collection of poetry, Viral, was published by Alice James Books in Sept. 2013. Her poetry has appeared in Drunken Boat, Hunger Mountain, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Rattapallax, and numerous other journals, and she is a winner of the Alice M. Sellars Award from the Academy of American Poets and was a Poetry Fellow at the Prague Summer Seminars. Of Viral, poet Carol Muske-Dukes writes, “These are relentlessly tender, impossibly empathetic poems— which echo and clarify the body of grief— ‘…the need to pass/through the impassable and land/in a space I fill, exactly.’ The emotional tension is unbearable, but sustained, just as the human heart goes on, after unimaginable loss.”