Perforated: Philly reading
Wed., Feb. 18th, 7 pm at Fergie's Pub with Moonstone Arts! Hear poets Alison Hicks, Chloe Yelena Miller, David J. Schast and Laura Tanenbaum
I am very excited to be reading in Philadelphia next week! I hope you can join us.
Alison Hicks holds a special place in my heart. We met in 2006 at the Zen Mountain Monastery where Jane Hirshfield was teaching a poetry workshop. It has been such a pleasure to keep in touch over the years!
Laura Tanenbaum is a fellow Smithie poet with a great new poetry collection, Dear Mother, recently out.
Thank you to the Moonstone Arts Center for hosting us!
Here’s more about each of us:
Alison Hicks’ fourth collection of poems is Homing. She was awarded the 2021 Birdy Prize from Meadowlark Press for Knowing Is a Branching Trail. Previous collections are You Who Took the Boat Out and Kiss, and chapbook Falling Dreams. Her work has appeared in Gargoyle, Permafrost, and Poet Lore. She was a finalist for the 2021 Beullah Rose prize from Smartish Pace, an Editor’s Choice selection for the 2024 Philadelphia Stories National Poetry Prize and is a three-time nominee for a Pushcart Prize. She is founder of Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio, which offers community-based writing workshops.
Chloe Yelena Miller is a writer and teacher living in Washington, D.C., with her partner and child. She’s the author of Perforated and Viable, and the poetry chapbook Unrest. She co-founded and co-directs Brown Bag Lit, an online writing community. Miller teaches writing and literature through University of Maryland’s Global Campus, Politics and Prose bookstore and New Directions in Writing. Miller has a BA in Italian language and literature from Smith College (1998) and an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College (2003).
David J. Schast is a poet living near Philadelphia who returned to writing after decades of creative and practical pursuits. His work draws on a full, varied life and has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The F-Word, Sheila-Na-Gig Online, Voicemail Poems, and multiple Moonstone Press anthologies
Laura Tanenbaum is a Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, where she has taught composition, literature and creative writing for eighteen years. Her debut collection, Dear Mother, was published by Main Street Rag in January of 2026. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Rust & Moth, Cleaver Magazine, Aji, Rattle, On the Seawall, and many other publications. She has also published essays and book reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Dissent, and other venues. Originally from the Chicago area, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two school-age children.
Host Sean Hanrahan – Open Reading Follows