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Light of Unity Artist's and Writer's Series 2009, Central Library

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The Light of Unity Artist's and Writer's Series 2009

Dates:

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 7pm

Lamont B. Steptoe
http://www.whoownsjackkerouac.com/steptoe2.html

The Bread is Rising Poetry Collective
http://www.thebreadisrising.org/

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 7pm

Alla Vilnyanskaya
http://www.foxchasereview.org/2008/05-AllaVilnyanskaya.html

Joe Jordan
http://www.myspace.com/joejordanmusic

Plumdragoness
http://www.myspace.com/plumdragoness

PLP the Unity
http://www.plptheunity.com/

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 6pm

Arsenic Pizza: Leftovers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DisZoFcPo0E

Adam "Naked" Meora
http://poetic-arts.blogspot.com/

Dan "the man" Schall
Quincy Scott Jones
http://traceycoretta.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/whirlwind-poets/

Tamara G. Oakman
St. Skribbly La Croix
http://www.myspace.com/skribblylacroix

My Imaginary Band
http://myimaginaryband.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 6pm There will be an open mic

Ian Wolf
Jeff Ingram
Paul Siegell
http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com/

Ebony Malaika Collier
Thierry Lundy
The Alien Architect
http://www.myspace.com/alienarchitectmusic

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 6:30pm

In Celebration of Women

Yellow Rage
http://www.yellowrage.com/

Eileen D' Angelo
http://www.madpoetssociety.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=24

Nzadi Keita
http://www.whyy.org/phlproject/nzadibio.html

Mecca Jamillah Sullivan
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/187916.Mecca_Jamilah_Sullivan

Geraldine Drakes

Tarannum Laila
http://www.temple.edu/creativewriting/program/currentstudents/Laila.htm

Deborah Derrickson Kossmann
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/fashion/28love.html

Joanne Leva
http://www.a2pwebdesign.com/joanneleva/

Stephanie Durann
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLeZ60QR7rs

Octavia McBride
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1j2qg/

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 7pm

THIS READING WILL BE HELD AT BLUE GROTTO

Blue Grotto
3500 Lancaster Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-779-4566

Mel Brake
http://www.madpoetssociety.com/blog/2007/09/28/a-conversation-with-mel-brake/

Courtney Bambrick
http://www.myspace.com/ckbrick

Cole Eubanks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d72OuyxbQG0

Iain Haley Pollock
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/callaloo/v029/29.4pollock.html

Alexis Simmons
Steve Young
Vernyce Dannells
http://www.qlrs.com/contributor.asp?id=Vernyce%20Dannells

Joyce Lee Slater-Williams
Tessa Micaela
http://www.leeway.org/grantee-info.html?action=granteeDetail&GranteeID=76

Beth Phillips-Brown
http://home.earthlink.net/~philipsbrown/home_t.html

Questions?: Tamara Oakman thebusinessofwords@gmail.com

The Light of Unity Association bridges cultural, racial and regional backgrounds to bring the Light of Unity Artist's and Writer's Series 2009 to The Central Library. These free performances, scheduled for Tuesday evenings, showcases arts ranging from poets and essayists to musicians and even theatrical performances, in order to promote social and cultural unity in the city of Philadelphia and beyond. Over 30 wonderfully talented artists are expected to perform in this year’s series.

Fans of performers and poetics are encouraged to attend as artists will sell their work at the performances.

Show Title: Light of Unity Artist's and Writer's Series 2009

Tuesday Evenings from May - Oct

Hosted by Quincy Scott Jones

Event Venue:
Central Library
Skyline Room, 4th Floor
1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

(Cross Streets: (between 19th and 20th Streets
on the Parkway)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

Past and Present Performers Include:



Adam Meora
Adam Meora
Adam "Naked" Meora is the director of poetic arts performance project. An organization that produces poetic/performance evnts at mutliple venues, teaches classes, performs outreach and performs in Philly. He has been performing/reading poetry for sixteen years. He has performed in venues throughout Philadelphia. He is a teacher, DJ and avid tv watcher. He is now venturing into the world of comedy and has begun to write hysterical jokes that will make you forget his outstanding poetry...and allow him to make a shitload of money that he will donate to all of his broke poet friends. He loves his wife and serves her nightly.

Anne Kaier
Anne Kaier
Anne Kaier’s recent non-fiction appears in the Fall 08 issue of Tiny Lights and is forthcoming from Under the Sun. Her poetry has appeared in Philadelphia Poets, American Writing, Sinister Wisdom, HLFQ and other venues. Her chapbook, InFire, was published recently. She reviews poetry for The Wild River Review. Three new poems are forthcoming from Philadelphia Poets in 2009. She teaches literature and creative writing at Arcadia, Rosemont College, and Penn State, Abington.

Ashley Shaw
Ashley Shaw
Ashley Shaw is an undergraduate student at Arcadia University. She is currently attempting to graduate with a B.A. in English and a minor in Creative Writing but is failing to do so in a timely manner. She has published nothing and has very little experience, other than a handful of workshop classes offered at Arcadia University. She enjoys poetry and the learning experience and hopes to one day publish something.

Aziza Zenzile Kinteh
Aziza Zenzile Kinteh
Aziza Zenzile Kinteh is a Poet/Activist, Griot, Published Author, Vocalist, Educator, and Hair Culturalist, who utilizes her gift to uplift her culture, promote black womanhood in a positive light, and cultivate a consciousness for social change. Alumna of Eckerd College and Temple University's School's of Journalism and Communications, her poetry, editorials, and collective works, have been published worldwide. She has traveled extensively throughout the coast of West Africa, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the West Indies. Aziza also conducts workshops on Natural Beauty Culture and lectures on her experiences with West African Cultures. Locally, she host two venues that provide an outlet for free form expressions of art and culture in the community: First Fridays on Vine, housed at Jose Sebourne’s Graphic Design and Art Gallery, in downtown Philadelphia and Underground Soul at Patterson’s Place every forth Saturday located on Cecil B Moore Avenue in North Philadelphia. She self published her first book of poetry entitled I Am Azizag and her work is also featured in four (Now Anthology, The Poetry Ink Tenth Anniversary Anthology, Hair Pieces, and Now! (Then) The Eternal Now Anthology) anthologies. Aziza is currently working on the final touches of her second book of poetry, Traveling Lite, scheduled to hit the press later this spring. She has also been working in the studio on an upcoming CD that will fuse her two passions, Poetry and Jazz.

The Bread is Rising Poetry Collective

Since late 1994, The Bread is Rising Poetry Collective has spread consciousness through the word in numerous appearances in performance, in festivals and gatherings, on radio and public access cable, across the United States, Canada and England. As a culturally political organization, the Collective continues its work with a regular open stage series - The Julia DeBurgos-James Baldwin-Rev. Pedro Pietri-Lorraine Hansberry People's Cafe - held in El Barrio of New York City.

Carlos Raul Dufflar (Artstic Director) has published the following books of poetry: El Barrio de Naomi, The Eye of the Flower, Haravek and Las Trincheras de la Vida/The Trenches of Life. He also has appeared in the Barnard College Open Moments Anthology and Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam.

Angel L. Martinez (Minister of Information) has published Spirit, Fire & Flower and the long poem "This is Not America." His articles have appeared in Real News and The Black World Today. He is editor of The Voices, a journal of poetry, art and commentary published by the Collective.

David Gordon (Art Director) has published Directions. His next collection of poetry and art, Scrambled Eggs, is forthcoming.

CAConrad
CAConrad
CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia where he lives and writes with the PhillySound poets www.PhillySound.blogspot.com. His latest book The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009) received The Gil Ott Book Award. He is also the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), and two forthcoming books, advanced ELVIS course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009). He invites you to visit him online at www.CAConrad.blogspot.com

Charles C Migeot
Charles C Migeot
Charles Carroll Migeot is the author of The Talk: An American Father’s Observations and Opinions on This and That. He is not a scholar nor has he written anything else. He has no degrees or awards and is not an expert in anything. Nor is he a celebrity. He is an average American father with roots to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, an original signer of the Declaration of Independence; and to John Carroll of Baltimore, founder of Georgetown University, the first Catholic University in America.

Mr. Migeot has worked for corporations and has run his own businesses. He has been a successful entrepreneur in the design, sales, management, and investment of Real Estate and of restaurants; and he has experience in the computer network technology field and the publishing industry.

But most importantly, he is a very grateful husband and father competing with the media, the culture, and official history to advise his child amidst society's casual tolerance of war, corruption, pollution, injustice, and hypocrisy.

Dan Maguire
Dan Maguire is a native Philadelphian who now lives in Baltimore. His work has appeared in The Comstock Review, The Mad Poets Review, The Schuylkill Valley Journal, The Paterson Literary Review, Big City Lit, the Philadelphia Inquirer and others.

He was awarded first prize for poetry at the Philadelphia Writer's Conference twice and has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes.

He has read at the Library of Congress of the United States. He has led poetry workshops through the Gloucester City (NJ) Adult Education Program, and the 2 Rivers Writers group and led one of the sessions at the first joint-workshop for disabled and non-disabled poets, held at Inglis House in Philadelphia. He has also led workshops at the National Convention of State Poetry Societies.

In 2004 his first volume of poetry, Somewhere Between, was published by Brief Candle Press, through a grant from the English Speaking Union. His chapbook, Finding the Words, has just been published by Plan B Press.

Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Born in 1940 in Oakland, California, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore’s first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964, and the second in 1972, Burnt Heart/Ode to the War Dead. He created and directed The Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company in Berkeley, California in the late 60s, and presented two major productions, The Walls Are Running Blood, and Bliss Apocalypse. He became a Sufi Muslim in 1970, performed the Hajj in 1972, and lived and traveled throughout Morocco, Spain, Algeria and Nigeria, landing in California and publishing The Desert is the Only Way Out, and Chronicles of Akhira in the early 80s (Zilzal Press). Residing in Philadelphia since 1990, in 1996 he published The Ramadan Sonnets (Jusoor/City Lights), and in 2002, The Blind Beekeeper (Jusoor/Syracuse University Press). He has been the major editor for a number of works, including The Burdah of Shaykh Busiri, translated by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, and the poetry of Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Munir Akash. He is also widely published on the worldwide web: The American Muslim, DeenPort, and his own website and poetry blog, among others: www.danielmoorepoetry.com, www.ecstaticxchange.wordpress.com. The Ecstatic Exchange Series is bringing out the extensive body of his works of poetry, with presently twenty-one titles, and others in preparation.

Dan "the Man" Schall
Dan Schall
Born and raised in Philly, Dan recently earned a B.A. in English with a minor in Creative Writing from Arcadia University, and is currently attending the graduate program there, as well. He tutors undergraduate and graduate students on the craft of writing at the university Writing Center. He also publishes a quarterly chapbook, The Fridge Door, which showcases and celebrates the varied emotions and influences of writing across many curricula. Dan's current projects include his newly formed aesthetic style "metarelational semiotics", as well as a poem in 72 sections called "The Colossuem." His poetry is best described as "the real and imagined, fraught with as much disappointment and hope as is reflected in our human condition."

Deborah Derrickson Kossmann
Deb Kossman
Deborah Derrickson Kossmann won the Short Memoir Competition at the 2007 First Person Arts Festival in Philadelphia. Her essay, "Why We Needed a Prenup With Our Contractor" was published as a "Modern Love" column in The New York Times. Her other essays have appeared in journals and magazines including Tiferet, A Journal of Spiritual Literature, Psychotherapy Networker, and Families, Systems, & Health.

In 2004, Deb received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Her poetry has appeared in Runes: A Review of Poetry, Cape Cod Literary Voice, Iris: A Journal about Women, Delaware Valley Poets Anthology, The Mad Poets Review, and Philadelphia Poets. She had artist residencies at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, IL in 2004, 2005 and 2007.

Deb is currently working on a collection of poetry, “Pivot” and a humorous collection of essays, tentatively titled, “My Cat’s on Valium and Other Stories of Suburban Living.” Deb is a clinical psychologist in private practice with offices in Langhorne and Havertown, Pennsylvania.

Debrah Morkun
Debrah Morkun
Debrah Morkun, received a Master of Fine Arts in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University, Boulder, CO, in 2004. After receiving this degree, I gipsyed around the country. In 2005, I worked at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, and learned much about the importance of poetic performance. My long poem Projection Machine recently served as the lyrical impetus for a multimedia Fringe Festival performance, combining poetry, music, visual art, and dance, that was performed at the Adrienne Theatre in Philadelphia, September 2008. I am a founding member of The New Philadelphia Poets, a group committed to expanding the spaces for poetry in Philadelphia.

Ish Klein
Ish Klein
Ish Klein is self-taught film and puppet maker who also writes poems. She is an alumna of Columbia University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop for Poetry. In 2005, she was awarded the National Endowment of the Arts Digital Filmmaker Residency.

Her poems have been published in Bridge,The Canary, Gare du Nord, and more recently in Hat magazine, X-connect, big Bridge. Spork and Gut Cult.

Her book, "Union!" will be available April 2009 through the Canarium Press.
Please see Ish Klein's new book UNION!
http://unionbook.blogspot.com

J Mase
J Mase III
J. Mase III is a highly engaging Black/Gay/Trans/Queer facilitator and performer based in Philadelphia. Passionate about social justice, J. Mase believes that in order to create real change you must reach people through education, community organizing and art.
Website: http://www.myspace.com/masonthewordartist

Joseph Dorazio
Joseph Dorazio
Joseph Dorazio studied anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and served as a docent at Penn's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. A late bloomer, Mr. Dorazio started writing poetry in 2007. Since then, he has been a guest on Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, hosted by Dr. Niama Williams, and was a featured reader at Otherwise Poetry at Churchill’s. His poems have appeared in print and online, including The Mad Poets Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Philadelphia Poets, Avocet, Chest, Nerve Cowboy, Autumn Leaves, and elsewhere.

Lamont B. Steptoe
Lamont Steptoe
Lamont B. Steptoe is a poet/photographer/publisher, born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Steptoe is a graduate of Temple University's School of Communication and Theater and a Vietnam Veteran. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry and has edited two collections of work by South African Poet, Dennis Brutus. Steptoe's most recent books are Uncle's South China Sea Blue Nightmare, A Long Movie of Shadows, Crowns and Halos and Oracular Rumblings and Stiltwalking. He has been published in over seventy anthologies, was awarded the American Book Award in 2005 and was inducted into the International Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent by the Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University and was also awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2006.

Lynn Blue
Lynn Blue
Lynn is a graduate of the University of Maryland. Lady Blue as she has been dubbed by her Blog Talk Radio (BTR) family has always loved writing. These last 3 years have seen Lady Blue return to her passion with a passion. Each year she has blazed a new trail with her creativity. Lynn created her own customized greeting card business, “With You in Mind.” She created the poetry series, “Poetic Minds Plus” and has hosted venues in Narberth and Overbrook. She was featured in a PBS animation, A Room Nearby, produced by Paul and Sandra Fierlinger. Her play, The Sense of a Punk” was produced in 2006 at the Walt Whitman Arts Center. She self published her first poetry chapbook, Poetic Therapy in 2007. Recently she had released a sneak preview of her upcoming CD, “Within My Mind.” Her poetry series, Poetic Minds Plus, which she has now taken live to Blog Talk Radio, airs every 3rd and 4th Saturday of the month @ 4PM eastern standard time. She is a teaching artist for Arts and Spirituality and a substitute teacher for Haverford Friends School. Featured throughout tri-State area, Lynn resides in Ardmore, Pa with her most ardent fan, husband, spiritual and life long friend all wrapped in one….. Charlie. "I am not the writer that will rigidly guide you in the academics of writing. I am like the musician that never learned to read music but "plays.” Like, the singer that never took music lessons but "sings" my writings are "my babies" born out of experiences: mine and others but all from the heart. I "feel” what I write. That's all.....”
http://www.myspace.com/lynnbluepoetry

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is from Harlem, New York. Her fiction has appeared and is forthcoming in a number of journals and anthologies, including Crab Orchard Review, Bloom, Baby Remember My Name, X-24 Unclassified, Philadelphia Stories, Lumina, Baobab South African Journal of New Writing, and others. She has received honors and awards for fiction, critical writing, playwriting, and teaching from Temple University, The Boston Fiction Festival, the New York State Summer Writers Institute, New World Theatre, the NAACP, and other organizations. She recently received Crab Orchard Review’s 2008 Charles Johnson Student Fiction Award for her short story, "A Strange People," and was named a finalist for the 2009 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival for her play, “Two Rings.” She holds a B.A. in Afro-American Studies from Smith College and an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Temple University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and working on her first novel.

Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac Includes: Brujo de la Mancha, Ruben del Rosario, Jose Luis Morales, and Edgar Adrian Alcantara Plata


Brujo de la Mancha
Brujo de la Mancha was born in Mexico City, but his Grandmother was a native of the small town of Xico, in the mountains of the state of Veracruz. Every year Brujo would travel to Xico for family visits, including trips to the surrounding area. In Xico, Brujo learned about the activities and the lives of the indigenous people. Brujo observed the style of farming, as well as the arts, music, and the culture of the area. This is an are made up of a mixture of influences from the Olmec, Maya, and Catholic traditions. At sixteen years old, Brujo left Mexico City to travel to different places in order to immerse himself in the indigenous cultures of the people of Oxaca, Puebla, Veracruz, Michoacan, and Tlaxcala. As well as a dancer, Brujo is a visual artist working in painting, sculpting, photography, and puppetry. Brujo also teaches art classes to children in after school programs, as well water colors for people with Alzheimer’s Disease and clay to older adults. Brujo met Daniel at the Immigrant Worker’s Freedom Ride in September, 2003. Since then, Brujo and Daniel have been talking regularly and sharing ideas for the dance and the Mexican community. Brujo has made all the instruments for the dance group. He has also done a large portion of the choreography with Daniel. Brujo has additionally been responsible for organizing the group for their performances, as he is one of the group members who is comfortable using his English language skills.

Ruben del Rosario
Ruben del Rosario is a native of San Mateo Ozolco, Puebla, Mexico. Ruben grew up speaking Nahuatl, the indigenous language of Mexico as well as Spanish. He moved to Philadelphia several years ago. This new place make him to dance and prompted Ruben to be more into his ancient Mexican cultural roots.

Jose Luis Morales
Jose Luis Morales is a native of Puebla, Mexico. He grew up speaking Spanish as well as the ancient language of Nahuatl. He moved to Philadelphia and then to New Jersey several years ago. This new life made him want to dance and also prompted him to get in touch with his ancient Mexican cultural roots.

Edgar Adrian Alcantara Plata
Edgar Adrian Alcantara Plata born in Mexico city in the barrio de Iztacalco he learned to work as young age with his parents because his family is in the small business of women's beauty supplies. All family members are from mex. city . He finish junior and high school as well (vocacional). As well he used to live in Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico. He likes alternative/rock music. He now lives in Philadelphia; he has two children.

Paul Siegell
Paul Siegell
Paul Siegell is psyched like a "ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL" to be the author of Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008). "Let's get into the song!" Staff editor at Painted Bride Quarterly, Paul has contributed to The American Poetry Review, MiPO, BlazeVOX, Coconut and other fine journals, and has also been featured in Paste Magazine and the Philadelphia City Paper. Kindly find more of his work at paulsiegell.blogspot.com.

"MOST A-MY HEROES EXIST AS MYTHS, SO I CHEER FOR MY FRIENDS INSTEAD"

Peter Medeiros
Peter Medeiros
Peter Medeiros is a second-year English major at Arcadia. In his free time, he tries his hand at verse and prose. He thoroughly enjoys comic books of all varieties and has recently read more James Wright than is good for a man.

Pradyumna S. Chauhan
Pradyumna Chauhan
Pradyumna S. Chauhan provides an example of Arcadia’s global perspective. He guest edited the South Asian Review’s 2005 special issue V.S. Naipaul: His Ideas, Work and Art, a 427-page publication of global scholarship on Naipaul. He chaired sessions at the Modern Language Association and South Asian Literary Association annual meetings in 2005. He also wrote an article on “South-Asian American Writers” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multi-Ethnic American Literatures (2005) and published a bio-critical essay on the contemporary Irish novelist and short-story writer Anthony Glavin in the Dictionary of Literary Biography (2005).

Quincy Scott Jones
Quincy Scott Jones earned a Bachelor's degree from Brown University, a Master's degree in English and Creative Writing from Temple University, and $100.00 once working as supermarket clown. He currently writes, teaches, and performs in the Philadelphia area, and is an Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at Arcadia University and an Adjunct Instructor at Temple University. He is the creator and host of New Directions of Black Poetics, a semiannual panel of writers and scholars discussing their relation to the African-American Community and literary tradition. Last year he taught Arcadia University's first ever Poetry on Page and Stage class, a course exploring the possibilities in the relationship between poetry as spoken performance as well as a performance on the page.

Rodger Lowenthal
Rodger Lowenthal is semi-retired. He keeps busy as a substitute teacher, is an ephemera dealer at collectible shows, is also a poker player and "poet." He has been reading frequently at local venues of late.

Ryan Eckes
Ryan Eckes
Ryan Eckes lives in South Philadelphia. His poetry can be read in XConnect, Fanzine, the ixnay reader 4, PhillySound, in his chapbook when i come here (Plan B Press, 2007), and on his blog, Old News (ryaneckes.blogspot.com). He has an MA in creative writing from Temple University, where he currently teaches.

Tamara Oakman
Tamara Oakman
Tamara Oakman, a graduate of Temple University, has won awards in poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and drama, and is the only person who has ever won the Judith Stark Award in every category. She has been published by Many Mountains Moving, Philadelphia Stories, Mad Poets Review, and other journals; reads poetry and fiction everywhere in Philadelphia and the tri-state area; judged a fiction and drama contest for Hidden River Arts, and is completing her Master's of English at Arcadia University.

She has hosted at venues such as, Book Corner, Robin's Bookstore and Voices and Visions Bookstore. She created, coordinated and hosted The Light of Unity Festival, is currently leading The Business of Words poetry workshop at Book Corner, edits a chapbook called "The Business of Words." She hosts and manages The Light of Unity Artist's and Writer's Series at The Central Library where she showcases the talents of writers and musicians. Her efforts have been documented in The Metro and The City Paper. She has read poetry at Robin's Bookstore, Voices and Visions Bookstore, Caramel, South Cafe, Kelly Writer's House, Lori Cosgrove Design, Arcadia University, Del Co. Institute and many other places. She is the executive director of The Light of Unity Association and currently resides in Philadelphia.

Tyler Doherty

Portrait of Tyler Doherty, by Derek Fenner

Tyler Doherty was born in 1973 and grew up in Toronto, Canada. His first book of poems, Bodhidharma Never Came to Hatboro was published by Bootstrap Press in 2004. He now lives in the Germantown section of Philadelphia with his wife Michelle.
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  • Mar 17 2009 2:09 PM

    Delighted...
    Much love
    Lynn Blue
  • Mar 15 2009 2:23 AM

    hey, thanks for the friends request, ollin will be there.

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