2011 Event Schedule

THE PHILADELPHIA POETRY FESTIVAL
April 23, 2011

12pm: Opening Remarks, Leonard Gontarek

1ST SET
Hosted by: LEONARD GONTAREK

• The Free Library Teen Poetry Slam Finalists (Aurora Sanchez)
• National Black Authors Tour (Dr. Maurice Henderson/ B. Michelle Horton)
• The 34th Street Poets (Betti Kahn / Deidra Greenleaf Allan)
• Poetry as Performance (Dr. Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon )
• Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program (Dr. Christopher Bursk/Amy Small McKinney)
• Moveable Beats Poetry Series (Peter Baroth / Courtney Bambrick)

2ND SET
Hosted by: JOANNE LEVA

1:00pm: Special Guest, Thomas Devaney

• The Green Line Poetry Series (Leonard Gontarek /Charles Carr/Elyse Fenton)
• Overbrook Poets  (Peter Krok / Tree Riesener)
• Poet-tree en Motion Performance Series (Gabrielle deBurke)              
• Monday Poets Series (Amy Thatcher)
• Moonstone Art Center (Larry Robin)
• Certificate Program in Writing & Publishing –Drexel University (Harriet Levin)

3RD SET
Hosted by: TAMARA OAKMAN

2:00pm: Special Guest, Nathalie Anderson 

• Mad Poets Society (Eileen D’Angelo / John Timpane)
• Painted Bride Quarterly (Kathleen Volk Miller/ Paul Siegell)  
• Apiary Magazine (Lillian Dunn / Tamara Oakman)
• Philadelphia Poets (Rosemary Cappello / Peter Baroth)
• Poetryplus.com  (Catherine Weiss-Celley)
• Philadelphia Writers’ Workshop (Rachel Kobin / Kathryn Smith)

4TH SET
Hosted by: AUTUMN KONOPKA

3:00pm: Special Guest, Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno

• Making Poems that Last: Poetry Workshop (Leonard Gontarek /Catherine Bancroft)
• Poetry-Go-Round (Barbara Brenner /Christopher D. Ney)
• Poetry Noir (Joanne Leva / Scott Edward Anderson)              
• East Falls Poetry Series (Courtney Bambrick )           
• Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio (Alison Hicks / Kay Peters)
• New Philadelphia Poets (Debrah Morkun)     
• Schuylkill Valley Journal (Peter Krok/Fereshteh Sholevar)