The Mad Poets Blog

Friday, September 12, 7 PM 

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A.V. Christie’s two volumes of poetry are Nine Skies which won the National Poetry Series in 1996 and The Housing chosen for the 2005 McGovern Prize by Eamon Grennan.  Her work has appeared in Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and Commonweal among other magazines.  She’s received artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, from the Arts Councils of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation.  A Poet-in-the-Schools for over 15 years, she’s taught creative writing locally at Villanova, LaSalle, Penn State Abington and at Bryn
Mawr College.

Christy Schneider fears the distractions of clutter.  Through writing, she discards and assembles words for images that include Darth Vader’s mask and Frida Kahlo’s braids.  Her poetry has been described as “challenging but satisfying.”  Her writing has been printed in Labyrinth, eye level and Art Matters.  She works as a museum educator and interprets artifacts including a ceramic roach trap from 1800 and a lock of George Washington’s hair.  She lives in West Philadelphia, where she enjoys trees and Victorian architecture.

Upcoming, October 10: Tom Devaney & Adam Fieled