Friday, March 9th
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Nor'easter Open: Two Feature & an Open Mic!
Big Blue Marble Bookstore
551 Carpenter Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19119-3402
Join us for our second Nor’easter Open, Nor’easter Exchange’s monthly open mic series that takes place the second Friday of every month at Mt. Airy Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Bookstore, co-hosted by Nina Sharma Jones and Quincy Scott Jones. Each series kicks off with readings by two feature authors, followed by an hour of open mic. Our March features are Aziza Kinteh and Ian Haley Pollock, incredible poets and Philadelphia natives. Nor’easter Exchange welcomes and is proud to support both emerging and established writers, at a bookstore with a truly independent heart. Come read your work or just support that of your friends and neighbors.
For open mic, please arrive at least 15 minutes early (6:45 pm) to sign up, and allot 3 minutes for your reading.
Na Koikoi Aziza Zenzile Kinteh is a Poet/Activist, Griot, Author, Vocalist, Educator, and Hair Culturalist. Alumna of Eckerd College and Temple University's School's of Journalism and Communication, Azizag self published her first book of poetry I Am Aziza in 2003. She has also been published in three Poetry Ink Anthologies, The Real News, Hair Stories, Howard University’s Amistad Literary Journal, The Apiary, Versadelphia, and E Pluribus Unum: An Anthology of Diverse Voices. For the past eight years, Azizag has acted as host to a 1st Friday venues that provides an outlet for free form expressions of art and culture in the community; now housed at The Nile Cafe. Aziza is also featured in The Connection, a documentary film about relationships directed by Nisa RA. She is currently awaiting publication for “Traveling Lite”, her second book of poetry.
Iain Haley Pollock lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Springside Chesnut Hill Academy, where he is the Cyrus H. Nathan '30 Distinguished Faculty Chair for English. His first collection of poems, Spit Back a Boy (University of Georgia, 2011), won the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Pollock earned a bachelor's degree in English from Haverford College and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University. He is a Cave Canem Fellow.
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Friday, February 10, 7:00-9:00 PM
Nor’easter Open: Two Features and an Open Mic!
Join us for our inaugural Nor’easter Open, Nor’easter Exchange’s monthly open mic series that will take place the second Friday of every month at Mt. Airy Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Bookstore. Each series kicks off with readings by two feature authors, followed by an hour of open mic. Our February features are Yolanda Wisher and Dan Schall, incredible poets and Philadelphia natives. Nor’easter Exchange welcomes and is proud to support both emerging and established writers, at a bookstore with a truly independent heart. Come read your work or just support that of your friends and neighbors.
For open mic, please arrive at least 15 minutes early (6:45 pm) to sign up, and allot 3 minutes for your reading.
YOLANDA WISHER was born in Germantown and raised in North Wales, Pennsylvania. She received a B.A. in English/Black Studies from Lafayette College and a M.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from Temple University. In 1999, she was named the first poet laureate of Montgomery County. Her work has been published in the anthologies Gathering Ground, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, The Fence Reader and Lavanderia. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Leeway Foundation Art and Change Award recipient. A radio host, musician, and former English teacher, Wisher founded the Germantown Poetry Festival in 2006.
DAN SCHALL teaches at Arcadia University and is the Director of the University's Writing Center. He is a scholar by day, and a poet by night (or is it the other way around?). He is a founding member of the Assassin's Guild Writing Group and is currently an editor for Obsession Literary Magazine.He has forthcoming publications in xcp streetnotes and Moria Poetry Journal, and is currently working on a collection of poems titled "SPACE WITHIN LINE NOT DEDICATED: Private Moments in Public."
Thursday, August 4th, 7 pm
A Joint Reading: NOTICE/Nor’easter Exchange
Marking the 3rd edition of each series, the Nor’easter Exchange and the Notice series have joined forces to bring you an eclectic group of writers who together will explore moments of change, transition and the bold moves that accompany them…with a good dose of tri-state pride. Come hear the incredible work of Samantha Chanse, Edward Garcia, Quincy Scott Jones and Bushra Rehman for this dynamic celebration.
at Robin's Books and Moonstone Arts Center
110A South 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107-4532
(215) 735-9600
Samantha Chanse is a writer/performer, theater artist, educator, and arts organizer based in New York and San Francisco. A member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab and currently a playwriting MFA candidate at Columbia University, her work has been presented with the New York International Fringe Festival, HERE Arts Center, Bowery Poetry Club, 3LD, and others. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission, an Artist In Motion residency from Footloose/Shotwell Studio, and an Emerging Artists Residency from Tofte Lake Center. She also co-runs a multidisciplinary, bicoastal salon series called Laundry Party. Her first solo play, Lydia's Funeral Video, is forthcoming from Kaya Press. More information: www.samanthachanse.com.
Edward Garcia is a writer and spoken word artist that has performed nationally in venues such as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Yale University. Edward works in Youth development and Education in the Latino Community. He is a Board Member of the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia. Edward lives in Philadelphia with his partner Jeannie and their 20 month old daughter Violet.
Quincy Scott Jones earned a Bachelor's degree from Brown University, a Master's degree from Temple University, and $100 once working as supermarket clown. His work has been featured in African American Review, Journal of Pan African Studies, Water~Stone Review, California Quarterly, Let Loose on the World: Celebrating Amiri Baraka at 75 and From Where We Sit: Black Writers Write About Black Youth. With Nina Sharma he co-created the Nor'easter Exchange: a multicultural, multi-city reading series. Jones' first book, The T-Bone Series, was published by Whirlwind Press in 2009.
Bushra Rehman's mother says Bushra was born in an ambulance flying through the streets of Brooklyn. Her father is not so sure, but it would explain a few things. Bushra was a vagabond poet who traveled for years with nothing more than a greyhound ticket and a book bag full of poems. She is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press 2002). She has been featured on BBC Radio 4, KPFA, the Brian Lehrer Show and in the New York Times, India Currents, and NY Newsday. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Crab Orchard Review, Sepia Mutiny, and Color Lines, and in several anthologies includingIndivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry and Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality. Her book Bhangra Blowout is forthcoming from Upset Press.
Saturday, November 20th, 4 pm
Nor'easter Exchange: Philly Edition
Join us at the Philadelphia premier of this summer’s cloud burst hit: the Nor’easter Exchange, a floating literary reading series that brings the finest writers of the multicultural tri-state area together to meet, read and collaborate. We’re proud to have this edition at –where else? - Robin's Books and Moonstone Arts Center, where poetry, prose, and performance-based writers, Ryan Eckes, Cihan Kaan, Aziza Kinteh, Eliel Lucero, and Yolanda Wisher, will present their work and represent the places they love and call home. Chance of rain and sun, laughter and cheers – all in one night. It’s the Nor’easter Exchange.
Ryan Eckes was born in Northeast Philadelphia, and now he writes poems. His poetry can be read in the journals Scythe, Fanzine, Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry, the ixnay reader 4, and 60Watts, and on his blog, Old News. He teaches at Temple University and Community College of Philadelphia.
Cihan Kaan is a Texas-born, Brooklyn-raised writer and filmmaker. His short film She’s Got an Atomic Bomb (2004) won Best Short Film for the Evil City Festival and toured underground film festivals such as the Coney Island Film Festival, the B-Movie Film Festival (winner of the Audience Award), and the Lost Film Festival. His second short film, Shuffle Mode (2006) won Best Short Film at the Sin Cine NYC Erotic Film Festival. His book of short stories, Halal Pork and Other Stories, is forthcoming in Fall 2010 from UpSet Press. He is the first American fiction author of Crimean Tatar descent.
In Halal Pork and Other Stories, Kaan projects an avant garde, post 9/11 world, from the perspective of a young Muslim New Yorker. It's a place where Coney Island meets Mars; where hijabi girls are punk rock dervishes; where identity salesmen count pigeons at insane asylums as a cream cheese conspiracy brews in gitmo; where rich boys pay to be Muslim for a day; where the transgendered are holy; and where the bacon is halal. Kaan offers up five urban Sufi tales in the swirling graffiti of Brooklyn.
Aziza Zenzile Kinteh is a Poet/Activist, Griot, Published Author, Vocalist, and Educator, 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 Communication; Aziza’s poetry, editorials, and collective works have been published world wide. She has traveled extensively and performed throughout the United States, coast of West Africa, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the West Indies. Locally, Aziza acts as host to a venues that provides an outlet for free form expressions of art and culture in the community; 1st Friday's On Vine housed at Jose Sebourne’s Graphic Design and Art Gallery, downtown Philadelphia. She self published her first book of poetry entitled I Am Aziza and her work is also featured in numinous anthologies. Aziza was featured in a short documentary; The Connection, a film about relationships directed by Nisa Ra and is currently working on the final touches of her second book of poetry scheduled to hit the press in December 2010."
Eliel Lucero is a native New Yorker of Afro Dominican Decent. He is a poet and a DJ. His work appears in the International Poetry Review (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and in Barber Shop Chronicles (penmanship press). His is a resident of the LouderARTS Project, an Urban Word Mentor, and the Production Manager of the Bowery Poetry Club, among other jobs and tasks he performs all over the city. Eliel is in love with the Autumn eternally and can't imagine an Autumn outside of New York.
His alter ego DJ Feliz Cumbé has played in parties all over NY including Dutty Artz, Soot Records, Funkworthy FM, Bushwick Pirate Ship Party and beyond. He is the resident DJ for the LouderARTS
project reading, and has gained a reputation as the bassline of the reading, and is considered editorial with the sound choices that follow poems.
He loves to play with Funk, Hip Hop, Soul, All things Caribbean, African and Latin American.
He also explores a post raver world with alternative electronica from around the world with strong heavy basslines and danceable, non-monotonous rhythms. He was baptized in the funk at the age of 16, and hasn't taken a shower since.
Yolanda Wisher was born in Germantown and raised in North Wales, Pennsylvania. She received a B.A. in English/Black Studies from Lafayette College and a M.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from Temple University. In 1999, she was named the first poet laureate of Montgomery County. Her work has been published in the anthologies Gathering Ground, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, The Fence Reader and Lavanderia. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Leeway Foundation Art and Change Award recipient. A radio host, musician, and former English teacher, Wisher founded the Germantown Poetry Festival in 2006.
Cihan Kaan is a Texas-born, Brooklyn-raised writer and filmmaker. His short film She’s Got an Atomic Bomb (2004) won Best Short Film for the Evil City Festival and toured underground film festivals such as the Coney Island Film Festival, the B-Movie Film Festival (winner of the Audience Award), and the Lost Film Festival. His second short film, Shuffle Mode (2006) won Best Short Film at the Sin Cine NYC Erotic Film Festival. His book of short stories, Halal Pork and Other Stories, is forthcoming in Fall 2010 from UpSet Press. He is the first American fiction author of Crimean Tatar descent.
In Halal Pork and Other Stories, Kaan projects an avant garde, post 9/11 world, from the perspective of a young Muslim New Yorker. It's a place where Coney Island meets Mars; where hijabi girls are punk rock dervishes; where identity salesmen count pigeons at insane asylums as a cream cheese conspiracy brews in gitmo; where rich boys pay to be Muslim for a day; where the transgendered are holy; and where the bacon is halal. Kaan offers up five urban Sufi tales in the swirling graffiti of Brooklyn.
Aziza Zenzile Kinteh is a Poet/Activist, Griot, Published Author, Vocalist, and Educator, 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 Communication; Aziza’s poetry, editorials, and collective works have been published world wide. She has traveled extensively and performed throughout the United States, coast of West Africa, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the West Indies. Locally, Aziza acts as host to a venues that provides an outlet for free form expressions of art and culture in the community; 1st Friday's On Vine housed at Jose Sebourne’s Graphic Design and Art Gallery, downtown Philadelphia. She self published her first book of poetry entitled I Am Aziza and her work is also featured in numinous anthologies. Aziza was featured in a short documentary; The Connection, a film about relationships directed by Nisa Ra and is currently working on the final touches of her second book of poetry scheduled to hit the press in December 2010."
Eliel Lucero is a native New Yorker of Afro Dominican Decent. He is a poet and a DJ. His work appears in the International Poetry Review (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and in Barber Shop Chronicles (penmanship press). His is a resident of the LouderARTS Project, an Urban Word Mentor, and the Production Manager of the Bowery Poetry Club, among other jobs and tasks he performs all over the city. Eliel is in love with the Autumn eternally and can't imagine an Autumn outside of New York.
His alter ego DJ Feliz Cumbé has played in parties all over NY including Dutty Artz, Soot Records, Funkworthy FM, Bushwick Pirate Ship Party and beyond. He is the resident DJ for the LouderARTS
project reading, and has gained a reputation as the bassline of the reading, and is considered editorial with the sound choices that follow poems.
He loves to play with Funk, Hip Hop, Soul, All things Caribbean, African and Latin American.
He also explores a post raver world with alternative electronica from around the world with strong heavy basslines and danceable, non-monotonous rhythms. He was baptized in the funk at the age of 16, and hasn't taken a shower since.
Yolanda Wisher was born in Germantown and raised in North Wales, Pennsylvania. She received a B.A. in English/Black Studies from Lafayette College and a M.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from Temple University. In 1999, she was named the first poet laureate of Montgomery County. Her work has been published in the anthologies Gathering Ground, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, The Fence Reader and Lavanderia. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Leeway Foundation Art and Change Award recipient. A radio host, musician, and former English teacher, Wisher founded the Germantown Poetry Festival in 2006.
at Robin's Books and Moonstone Arts Center
110A South 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107-4532
(215) 735-9600
The Nor'easter Exchange: In Life, A Little Words Must Fall
Saturday, July 24, 4-5:30 pm
Join us at the inaugural event of the Nor’easter Exchange, a floating literary reading series that brings the finest writers of the tri-state area together to meet, read and collaborate. We’re proud to have our New York edition at the Bowery Poetry Club, where New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia-based writers, J Mase III, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Post Midnight, Thaddeus Rutkowski, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, will present their work and represent the places they love and call home. Chance of sun, hail and snow…all in an hour.
Saturday, July 24, 4-5:30 pm
Join us at the inaugural event of the Nor’easter Exchange, a floating literary reading series that brings the finest writers of the tri-state area together to meet, read and collaborate. We’re proud to have our New York edition at the Bowery Poetry Club, where New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia-based writers, J Mase III, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Post Midnight, Thaddeus Rutkowski, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, will present their work and represent the places they love and call home. Chance of sun, hail and snow…all in an hour.
$5 admission
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
New York, NY 10012-2802
(212) 614-0505
Kamilah Aisha Moon is an alumna of Cave Canem. A recipient of fellowships to the Prague Summer Writing Institute and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, her work has been featured or is forthcoming in several journals and anthologies, including jubilat, Sou’wester, The Oxford American, Lumina, Callaloo, Bittersweet, Open City, Essence, Bloom, Obsidian III, Gathering Ground, The Ringing Ear and Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. A featured poet in conferences and venues around the country, most notably the Furious Flower Conference at James Madison University and The Langston Hughes Centennial Conference at the University of Kansas, she has also led creative writing residencies for the Langston Hughes National Poetry Project, Community~Word Project, Acentos and Voices UnBroken. Moon received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
Post Midnight the author of 2 screenplays, a stage play, 6 chapbooks - Common Sense, Unconventional Criminal, Mentally Disturbed, Schizophonetic, Troubled Youth & Sex & Violence – and has produced 3 spoken word cds: moonshower moods, Soap(EP), & Phoenix. He is the host of Late Night Series – Philly at Drexel University.
Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the novels Tetched and Roughhouse. Both books were finalists for an Asian American Literary Award. He teaches fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA and literature at City University of New York. He is the fiction and nonfiction editor of the literary journal Many Mountains Moving.
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is from Harlem, New York. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications from the US, the UK, and South Africa, including Callaloo, Best New Writing, Crab Orchard Review, The Minnesota Review, Bloom, Lumina, and others. She is the winner of the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the William Gunn Fiction Award, and the James Baldwin Memorial Playwriting Award, as well as honors from Best New Writing, Glimmer Train, and Gulf Coast, and second place in the American Short Fiction Short Story Contest. She has received scholarships, fellowships and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Yaddo Colony, the Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat, the N.Y. Summer Writers’ Institute and others. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate and Dean’s Scholar in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and is completing her first novel.
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