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LFG #18: Philly Pheature w/Warren Longmire (opens the original)
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Is it fair to say everyone knows Warren Longmire? In a way, I hope not, because this Philly Pheature (curated by Pheatures Editor Alison Lubar, bien sur) is a wonderful introduction. But Warren is absolutely an irreplaceable figure in the Philly poetry scene, and beyond — he and I actually met 20+ years ago at an open mic in London. (And, full disclosure, he published my codepoem collection of self-erasures a few years ago through his multimedia press&project, _mixlit.)Let’s see what Warren reve
LFG #17: A Review of With One’s Own Eyes, by C.M. Crockford (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the balance we try to strike every day to keep our hearts open without completely short-circuiting as the world burns in background tabs. It’s an exhausting tightrope, but Philly’s writers have a way of meeting us right in that uneasy middle space.This week, Bird returns to review C.M. Crockford’s With One’s Own Eyes, a collection that confronts the absurdity and quiet horror of our present moment head-on. Through pointed references, visceral language, and unexpect
LFG #16: Introducing Philly Pheatures (opens the original)
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Today, I’m excited to share a new LFG series edited by Alison Lubar, Philly Pheatures. Alison chats with important voices in Philly’s poetry scene and gives them 20 questions to share their passions, process, and what they love about the Greatest City in the World. For our inaugural Pheature, Alison reached out to Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, a brilliant writer and co-host of the monthly reading series Philadelphia Writers Circle. The result is some great recs, a peek into ritual as writing process,
LFG #15: LindoYes on memorization (opens the original)
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Today’s guest contributor is LindoYes, a prominent name on Philly’s spoken word scene, and subject of an LFG interview back in the spring. He’s also co-organizer of Poetry, Blerds, and Jams, the very first spoken word Comic Con EVER, and happening this Saturday, 12-7 pm, at the Braid Mill in Germantown!! And heyyyyy LFG readers get $35 off tickets with the discount code phlpoetrylfg! <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-blerds-jams-spoken-word-comic-con-tickets-198207722132
LFG #14: Chris's Special Saturday at the Reunion Poetry Thing, Part 1 (opens the original)
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LFG dude of dudes Chris DeMento is back, abiding in a two-part recap of the two-part installment that was Saturday, August 8, of the (fourth!) annual Reunion Poetry Fest.This week, wander with Chris through the afternoon book fair at South Philly’s Cartesian Brewing and encounter some perhaps familiar hometown names and a few friends from New York, because everyone in New York knows Philly is better at this point, right? (It’s okay; we’re only a quick train ride away; you don’t have to MOVE here
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