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Liberation Poetry Coffeehouse: 04/07/19

Apr 7, 2019

Darius Lantz and Jesse White
2-4pm, Firbank Art Studio.

$14, includes refreshments.

When we write, we find ourselves in a world of our own creation, one in which we can feel free to imagine and experience new narratives, new relationships, and new ways of being. Join us as we share our liberation poetry (and other original writings). Together we will honor our spirits, our muses, and our communities with our words. Open mic format. All are welcome!

Paul JollyPoet Paul Jolly will be a guest reader. He will have copies of his recently published book of poetry, Why Ice Cream Trucks Play Christmas Songs (Fernwood Press, 2018), for sale. Paul grew up in Oakland, California, but most of his career he has lived on the East Coast. He ran the development program at Pendle Hill and created a very successful capital campaign here between 1989 and 1994. A professional fundraiser for non-profit organizations, Paul’s poems have appeared in the Columbia Journal, Straylight Literary Magazine, and Permafrost. Paul currently worships at Adelphi Friends Meeting in Maryland. Some responses to his first book of poems are shared below.

“Delightful, essential, full of renewed wisdom and old magic, of the natural elements that sustain body and spirit. Paul Jolly’s poems are to be savored time and again, like the ice cream in trucks that play Christmas songs. Bravo! Encore!”
Lucha Corpi, author of Eulogy for a Brown Angel and Confessions of a Book Burner

“Paul Jolly’s consonance crackles but is seldom gnarled. His poems are funny but never cruel. Like Kay Ryan, he sees the universe in little things. Jolly’s tenderness is understated, his language unrestrained.”
Flossie Lewis, Brief but Spectacular (PBS)

“To read these poems is to enter a richly imagined world; brightened by dry touches of humor, parody, and wit. The poems are very much of the present day, both in language and in outlook. Though deeply felt, they contain nothing sentimental, let alone anything maudlin.”
Marie Borroff, Sterling Professor of English, Emeritus, at Yale University

Leader(s)

Darius LantzDarius Lantz is a Poet/Host and Coffee Enthusiast who is the founder of one of Philadelphia’s most well received poetry/coffee tasting events: Coffee After Dark. Darius has been featured in multiple cities and has contributed works to The Philadelphia Jazz Project International album series.

Jesse WhiteJesse White is the Arts and Spirituality Coordinator at Pendle Hill. She holds a B.A. in Integrative Studies: Creative and Spiritual Process joined with a B.A. in Psychology from Guilford College. Jesse works as an arts educator and art therapist and directs Pigeon Arts, a cathartic art-making organization in Philadelphia. She is a member of Frankford Friends Meeting (PA).

Travel directions to Pendle Hill.