21st Mad Poets Festival and First Friday
FROM EILEEN D’ANGELO
IT’S ALMOST HERE! The 21st Annual Mad Poets Festival! There are 40+ POETS ON OUR READING LIST! CHECK OUT THE LINE UP BELOW !!!!
FIRST: The specifics for anyone who hasn’t been there: TIME: The festival runs from noon to five pm. Approx. time slots are below. LOCATION: Media Borough Hall, in the “Parlor”, at 3rd and Jackson Street, in Media. The website for Media Borough has great directions and public trans info to get to Media borough Hall. (More info about directions and travel info below).
THE BIGGEST POETRY PARTY FOR 21 YEARS NOW..IT’S A CELEBRATION OF THE ART, THE SPOKEN WORD, & ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF POETRY – TALENTED NEW VOICES, MIXED WITH SEASONED VOICES KNOWN TO THE PHILLY POETRY SCENE - A HUGE CELEBRATION OF THE MANY TALENTED POETS IN OUR MIDST !!
ALL THIS AND MUNCHIES, TOO served throughout the day, like coffee, danish, lemonade or ice tea, fruit, cheese, crackers, etc. The Mad Poets Festival is held in conjunction with the Media FOOD & ARTS Festival, which runs the length of State Street, so you can run out there to stretch your legs, & check out the food fest, there is some amazing stuff the restaurants put out for this special day, and there are bands in the streets, arts & crafts, etc. (We are back two streets from the street fair.)
And Yippee! We will have our MAD POETS SOCIETY TOTE BAGS available, with our favorite Jack Kerouac quote on them..
AND ! We can even announce the winners of our 2008 mad poets contest at the beginning and end of the festival and have winners’ lists - and it will be posted shortly on the website!
If you are a member of Mad Poets, who is also an Arts Angel, a Silver Arts Angel, etc., you can pick up your “perks” on Sunday (mugs, t-shirts, tote bags, buttons and bumper stickers: “Driver Has Poetic License”, etc. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, check the website: www.madpoetssociety.com re: membership /donations.) All those items will be available for sale, as well.
HERE’S THE APPROXIMATE TIME LINE-UP.
LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING ALL OF YOU !! Be well, Eileen
P.S. AGAIN !
ALSO FRIDAY NIGHT, OCT. 3RD - JOIN MAD POETS FOR FIRST FRIDAYS MAIN LINE.. WE’LL BE AT SUBURBAN OFFICE EQUIPMENT, 49 E. LANCASTER AVE., ARDMORE, STORE # 610-896-7022. GO TO THEIR WEBSITE: http://www.firstfridaymainline.com/ - AND CLICK ON “EVENTS” — READERS SO FAR ARE: RICHARD S. BANK, ASHRAF OSMAN, EILEEN D’ANGELO, POSSIBLY AAREN PERRY & FRIENDS, from 7-ish to whenever. Come read a poem or two with us !! (The logo is supposed to be where my face is on the website… and sadly I just noticed Rich Bank’s bio is missing.. but I’ll tell you lots about him on Sunday! ) -E
WELCOMING REMARKS - NOON
12:10 – POET - _BETTIE McCLELLAND
12:15 – POET - _DR. NIAMA WILLIAMS
12:20 – POET - _ CAROL CLARK
12:25 – POET - _ FRANCES GROTE
12:30 – POET - _MEL BRAKE
12:35 – POET - _ PRABHA PRABHU
12:40 – POET - _ALLA VILNYANSKAYA
12:45 – POET - _CAMELIA NOCELLA
12:50 – POET - _ALICE WOOTSON
12:55 – POET - _ KASIA NEWCOMER
BREAK *
1:15 – POET - __RICHARD MOYER
1:20 – POET - __ EBONY COLLIER
1:25 – POET - __ MISSY GROTZ
1:30 – POET - __ TAMARA OAKMAN
1:35 – POET - BRIAN SAMMOND
1:40 – POET - __STEVE CONCERT
1:45 – POET - __CAROL CLARK WILLIAMS
1:50 – POET - __LYNN BLUE
1:55 – POET - _ CONNIE BERESIN
BREAK
2:15 - POET – MINNA CANTON DUCHOVNAY
2:20 – POET – LINDA FISCHER
2:25 – POET - ARLENE BERNSTEIN
2:30 – POET - GLENN McLAUGHLIN
2:35 – POET -DARLA HIMELES
2:40 – POET- STEVE DELIA
2:45 – POET - JOSEPH DORAZIO
2:50 – POET – DAVID GRAY
2:55 - POET - ELIZABETH CANTANESE
BREAK
3:15 – POET - CAMILLE NORVAISIS
3:20 – POET – EMILIANO MARTIN
3:25 – POET – MIKE COHEN
3:30 – POET – RACHEL BUNTING
3:35 – POET – RICHARD BANK
3:40 – POET – LISA BARON
3:45 – POET – PETER BAROTH
3:50 – POET - ANNA EVANS
3:55 – POET – BILL VAN BUSKIRK
BREAK
4:10 – POET – AMY LAUB
4:15 – POET – RAY GREENBLATT
4:20 – POET – ALISON HICKS
4:25 – POET – PETER KROK
4:30 – POET – MARJORIE MADDOX
4:35 – POET – NZADI KEITA
4:40 – POET – ASHRAF OSMAN
4:45 - POET - LEONARD GONTAREK (+ MAX GONTAREK, if he wants to !)
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NOTE: You will not be able to drive down Jackson Street from the Baltimore Pike end, because of the street fair… BUT you can turn off Baltimore Pike onto Monroe Street, (which is the block before Jackson), For example, if you are driving in on Baltimore Pike, you’ll cross over Rt. 252 a/k/a Providence Rd., and stay straight, it turns into Baltimore Ave. Come up to Monroe Street & turn right (there’s a Wawa + Media Post Office on the corners). After you turn right, you’ll go back to 4th Street, and turn Left. This puts you in the back of the building. You can come in the back, by the police station ramp- and follow the signs into the Parlor OR drive aroudn that block til you see the big wooden front porch and Mad Poets banner, and come in on the porch side. You’ll be right in the parlor. (FYI : the Media Borough Hall takes up the entire block between Monroe St., Jackson St., 3rd and
