This event will feature readings by:

James Feichthaler
Toni Love

Open mic to follow. Hosted by Sibelan Forrester

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

Tonita Austin also known as “Toni Love” is a gifted poet, singer, activist, and writer born in West Philadelphia. While attending Columbia University, Tonita was a student of Amiri Baraka and performed in Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls” as the Lady in Orange. Her writing is influenced by both experiences. She is a contributor to the anthology The Black Body and featured poet in the 2018 and 2020 Winter/Fall edition of the Philadelphia Arts and Urban Literary magazine. The Restoration EP is her first published recording; Toni’s Room is her first published book. Toni currently resides in Media, PA. See more at: <https://tonilove.hearnow.com/>

James Feichthaler is a poet and essayist whose work has most recently appeared in One Art, Sortes, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and the Mad Poets Society’s Local Lyrics series. His book The Rise of the COVFEFE, a poetical satire of these divided and uncertain times, was published in late 2020 by Parnilis Media. He is also the host of an open mic reading in Manayunk, PA called The Dead Bards of Philadelphia.