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Poetry Coffeehouse Online: 08/27/20

Aug 27, 2020

Hosted by Jesse White and featuring Maleka Fruean
7:00-8:00pm via Zoom.

Register below to reserve your spot.

Suggested fee: $5 (non-refundable).

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610-566-4507, ext. 137

Pendle Hill has moved our “Beloved Community” Poetry Coffeehouses online! We have offered interfaith poetry coffeehouses for over three years at our Wallingford, Pennsylvania retreat center. These coffeehouses have typically utilized a supportive and nurturing Open Mic format for emerging and established writers, with decadent refreshments. During this COVID-19 pandemic, we are shifting location and format while holding on to the supportive, nurturing, and sustaining energy intended for our gatherings. Listen to a different Featured Poet perform each month. Then, write in response to the Feature’s themes/words and share with other attendees of the program. This 1-hour poetry experience extends our community to a wider world and offers all writers a safe net for linguistic exploration and spiritual discovery.

Upcoming Poetry Coffeehouse dates:

September 24, 7-8pm Feat. Susan Schmidt
October 29, 7-8pm Feature TBD

Leader(s)

Maleka FrueanMaleka Fruean is a writer, artist, and community organizer for the Germantown Info Hub. She got the opportunity to get her M.F.A. from the Writer’s Foundry at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, and has been exploring grief, guilt, soul, and the subtle body in fiction and hybrid prose ever since. She’s read her prose and poetry all the way from Tribes Gallery in New York to communal houses in West Philly, and has hung out with children and neighbors everywhere in between.

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 clerk of Frankford Monthly Meeting (PA).

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