This event will feature performances by
Lisa DeVuono
Michael London
Bill Van Buskirk
Hosted by Brooke Palma. An open mic will follow.
Barnaby’s West Chester
15 S. High St.
West Chester PA 19382
Lisa DeVuono was a co-founder of It Ain’t Pretty, a women’s writing collective that performed locally. She produced multi-media shows incorporating song, music, poetry, and dance, including Rumi in Song at the Sedgwick Theater; and Whole Heart Home, and Breaking Open Breaking Free, part of the IceHouse Tonight series in Bethlehem. She has led creativity and poetry workshops and has worked with teens in recovery, cancer patients, and ALS patients and their families. She wrote a peer-based curriculum Poetry as a Tool for Recovery: An Easy-to-Use Guide in Eight Sessions for facilitators working with persons living with mental health challenges. In addition to the full-length manuscript This Time Roots, Next Time Wings, her poetry has appeared in the Mad Poets Review, Paterson Literary Review and the anthology Grit Gravity & Grace: New Poems about Medicine and Healthcare. She is the author of the chapbook Poems from the Playground of Risk published by Pudding House Press and was the recipient of an honorable mention in Passaic County Community College’s annual Allen Ginsberg Contest.
Bill Van Buskirk lives in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania. His poems have appeared in The Comstock Review, The Paterson Literary Review, LIPS, The Schuykill Valley Journal, Parting Gifts,The Mad Poets’ Review and many others. His chapbook, Everything that’s Fragile is Important, received an honorable mention in the Jesse Bryce Niles Chapbook contest (2007). His book, This Wild Joy that Thrills Outside the Law, won the Joie de vivre contest sponsored by the Mad Poets’ Review (2010). His latest book, The Poet’s Pocket Guide to Steady Employment, is available as of April 1.
Michael London is a singer-songwriter that has performed both as a soloist and with other musicians including classical and jazz. His music is often inspired by the deeply moving, transcendental poetry of Rumi, the 13th century Persian Sufi mystic. He has released four CDs including Rumi in Song, and One Whole Heart. He is a professor at Muhlenberg College where he teaches courses in leadership, organizational behavior, creativity and management.