Franklinstein

afromacnerd:

garyreed’s photostream on Flickr.

My short visit to a forgotten gem in Philadelphia. Germantown’s Townhall

cyborgianheart:

Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

morethanthewire:

And that’s one to grow on! #fallsbridge #philly #philadelphia (at Falls Bridge)

afromacnerd:

garyreed’s photostream on Flickr.

The Maplewood Mall got Knit Bombed

queenspoetlore:

EOAGH Lunch Poems Reading 
at the CUNY Chapbook Festival

featuring Abigail Child, Jaime Shearn Coan, EC Crandall, Paolo Javier, Patricia Spears Jones, Burt Kimmelman, and Susan Landers

Friday, May 3 at 1 PM

at the CUNY Chapbook Festival 

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

NYC 

Hosted by Tim Trace Peterson 

http://chapbookfestival.org/ 

http://eoagh.com 

Abigail Child is a media artist and writer whose original montage pushes the envelope of sound-image relations. Child is the author of 5 books of poetry (A Motive for Mayhem, Scatter Matrixand Artificial Memory among them) and a book of critical writings: THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Critical Poetics of Film from University of Alabama Press (2005). Her newest book of poetry,MOUTH TO MOUTH is forthcoming from EOAGH Books this summer. Child has taught film/video production and history at various schools and is currently Senior Faculty at SMFA, Boston. Her home is in NYC.

Jaime Shearn Coan lives in Brooklyn, New York, teaches creative writing and literature at City College, and leads a long-standing writing workshop with LGBT elders through the NY Writers coalition. His poems have appeared in several journals and his artist book, Dear Someone, the product of a collaborative queer letter-writing project, is distributed through Printed Matter. A 2012 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, Jaime has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Saltonstall Arts Colony.

EC Crandall’s poems have been published in PANK, Jupiter 88, Gay Shame, and The Trans Literary Reader. Crandall is co-author of the satiric novel Executive Privilege, and teaches in the University Writing Program at Columbia University.

Paolo Javier is the current Queens Borough Poet Laureate. Author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently The Feeling is Actual (Marsh Hawk Press), Javier is also as the publisher of a Queens-based tiny press, 2nd Avenue Poetry (2ndavepoetry.com).

Patricia Spears Jones is poet and playwright and author of Painkiller (2010), Femme du Monde(2006) and The Weather That Kills (1994) and three chapbooks. She edited Think: Poems For Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Hat/ (2009) and Ordinary Women: An Anthology of Poetry by New York City Women (1978) and is editing 30 Days Hath September for the Black Earth Institute blog. Poems and prose are featured in African Voices, The Agni Review, Bomb, Barrow Street, Calabar, Callaloo, www.kwelijournal.org, Fifth Wednesday, The Oxford American, The Southampton Review, and TriQuarterly.

Burt Kimmelman has published seven collections of poetry, the most recent The Way We Live(Dos Madres Press, 2011); Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982 - 2013(BlazeVOX [books]) is forthcoming. He has also published a number of books of criticism and scores of essays on medieval, modern, and contemporary poetry. He teaches at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Susan Landers is the author of 248 mgs, a panic picnic (O Books), Covers (O Books), 15: A Poetic Engagement with the Chicago Manual of Style (Least Weasel), and What I Was Tweeting While You Were On Facebook (forthcoming, Perfect Lovers Press). Her latest project,Franklinstein, is a mash-up of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Gertrude Stein’s Making of Americans, and the history of one Philadelphia neighborhood. She blogs about this project at susanlanders.tumblr.com.

I’m a little concerned that gothamist is trying to steal my Franklinstein thunder. 

Record of Sun Ra’s house in Germantown.

The house and its current owner (and Sun Ra Arkestra member) Marshall Allen were profiled by the  NYTimes in 2005 and Philadelphia Weekly in 2009: 

“The old house is a museum dedicated to Sun Ra, filled with his music, possessions and other memorabilia…

…several of Sun Ra’s old electronic keyboards leaned sideways a jumble in the corner. In another corner was a tall wardrobe cabinet containing hundreds of Sun Ra’s original music scores, much of them never recorded…

…The room was adorned with Egyptian and African art, psychedelic paintings and tributes to Sun Ra. His walking stick was mounted on the wall…

…There were dried roses from the funerals of both Sun Ra and John Gilmore.

Street photo source: Philadelphia Weekly

queenspoetlore:

Join us for a Lunch Poems Reading

Curated by EOAGH  for the CUNY Chapbook Festival

Featuring: Abigail Child, Jaime Shearn Coan, EC Crandall, Paolo Javier, Patricia Spears Jones, Burt Kimmelman, &Susan Landers.  Hosted by Tim Trace Peterson.

Friday, May 3rd, 1-2 PM
at the CUNY Chapbook Festival
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue (catty corner from the Empire State Building)
NYC

Directions: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Home