This event will feature readings by:

Nathalie Anderson
J.C. Todd

Open mic to follow. Hosted by Sibelan Forrester

The Upstairs Ballroom
Community Arts Center
414 Plush Mill Road
Wallingford PA 19086

J. C. Todd’s most recent books of poems are Beyond Repair, (2021) a special selection for the Able Muse Press Poetry Book Award, and The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Press, 2018), a finalist for the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award. A not-yet-titled “new and selected poems” will be published in a bilingual (English-Lithuania) edition by PDR in 2023. Poems and interviews have appeared in such journals as Baltimore Review, Gargoyle, The Night Heron Barks, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review. Winner of the 2016 Rita Dove Poetry Prize, twice a finalist for Poetry Society of America awards, and a ‘Commended’ winner in the 2021 National Poetry Competition of the Poetry Society of the United Kingdom, she has held fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. JC has been on the faculty of Murphy Writing, the Rosemont MFA Program, Bryn Mawr College and a poet with the Dodge Poetry Program.

Nathalie Anderson’s books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound. She collaborated in 2021 with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America, and her new book, Rough, is forthcoming in 2024 from The Word Works. Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, Nimrod, and Plume. She has also authored libretti for five operas, in collaboration with Philadelphia composer Thomas Whitman. Anderson manages the list-serv Lit-Philly that informs about 500 members about literary events in the Philadelphia area. She has recently retired from Swarthmore College, where she taught as Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English Literature and served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing.