The Mad Poets Blog

I’m SO happy to report that the Mad Poets Series at the Barnes & Noble in Bryn Mawr has found a new home at Milkboy Acoustic Cafe in Bryn Mawr.

Although we had a good deal of notice that B&N was closing its doors at the beginning of this month, we had a hard time finding a new venue that could take it on for the same day & time — so the series was still on the verge of homelessness.  Thankfully, Jaime & the other good folks at Milkboy have welcomed us with open arms.  We’ll be keeping the schedule & line up of readers — 1st Thursdays at 7pm.  In fact, in addition to our regular gig (which starts tonight!), they’ve also asked the Mad Poets to provide some poetry tomorrow night for Ardmore first Friday.  Yay for poetry-friendly venues!!!

Tonight we settle into our new home with poets John Timpane & Alison Hicks.  More about them after the jump…

All Join Hands: A Vision of Peace (Philadelphia: Mural Arts Program, 2006), a collection of children’s poetry as part of an antiviolence mural project. His latest poetry is in collaboration with landscape artist Eliza Auth at Wild River Review (http://www.wildriverreview.com/art_naturalbeauty.php). He lives in Lawrenceville, NJ, with his wife, Maria-Christina Keller (copy executive at Scientific American) and their children, Pilar and Conor.
Alison Hicks is the author of a novella Love: A Story of Images (Amherst Writers & Artists Press, 2004), and a chapbook of poems Falling Dreams (Finishing Line Press, 2006). She has twice received Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships, in creative non-fiction in 2003 and in fiction in 2007. Her fiction, poetry and nonfiction have appeared and are forthcoming in Pearl, Amoskeag, Eclipse, The Ledge, Pinyon, HeartLodge, Peregrine, Philadelphia Poets, Literary Mama, The Wooster Review, The Progressive, Four Corners, Xanadu and The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin. The story “The Reservoir” was performed for the 2002-2003 season of the Writing Aloud

series hosted by the InterAct Theatre Company in Philadelphia and the poem “Twenty-Six Years” was included in the 2005 Poetry is Alive! Performance by the Ritz Theatre Company of Oaklyn, New Jersey.  Ms. Hicks is founder of Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio, which supports writers in the development of their individual voices and the practice of their craft through community-based workshops and personal consultation, and holds an MFA from the University of Arizona.