MPS Fox Chase Reading Series on Saturday, July 26 @2pm features Poets Glenn McLaughlin and Arlene Bernstein 3 Sister Corner Café ,7950 Oxford Ave., (corner of Barnes and Loney), Philadelphia, Pa.19111
In 2004, Arlene Bernstein created Friends of Poetry as a vehicle for performing her poetry and to highlight local poets and musicians, which she does regularly throughout the Main Line/Philadelphia/Media area in coffee shops, libraries, book stores, and private salons. She is a member of Mad Poets Society, New Philadelphia Poets, Freshmeadow Poets of Flushing, NY, and the
Bonnie Baillis Havertown Poetry Circle . Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize (for a poem and an essay), she has also won contests locally and been published in many local and far-flung journals. She also writes fiction.
Glenn McLaughlin is a former plastics sales representative and a soon-to-be-former COO of a bio-medical start-up company. While he started reading and writing at age appropriate times in his life those activities did not include poetry until he was well into his fifth decade (not required for his chemistry degree). In the decade since, he has been published in several regional and online journals, published a volume of poems (”Something Catches,” Roland Street , 2006) and has been invited to read at the Philadelphia Library plus numerous venues throughout the mid-Atlantic area. He conceived of and hosts the poetry series “Otherwise - Poetry at Churchill” in Pottstown, PA where he resides with his wife and their numerous pets, his children having reached the point of self-sufficiency and flown the coop though still easily able to show up for dinner.
