Tonight …

POETRY IN COMMON
 &
THE GREEN LINE CAFÉ POETRY SERIES
PRESENT

AN OPEN POETRY READING
THE ANNUAL RONALD JOHNSON POETRY AWARD
FOR BEST POEM
THE PRIZE: Poetry Books Valued at $50

Judges: RAFI LEV & CASSIE MACDONALD

Hosted by LEONARD GONTAREK

Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 7 PM

THE GREEN LINE CAFE IS LOCATED
AT 45TH & LOCUST STREETS
PHILADELPHIA, PA  USA
(Please note the address, there are
  other Green Line Café locations.)
        greenlinecafe.com

     This Event Is Free


Cassie MacDonald has been Hearthkeeper of Brigid's House in Waterfront South Camden since 2008, where she practices radical hospitality and hosts writers, artists and musicians with wide-open creative space and loving encouragement.  From here, she launched the Poetry Liberation Front, whose Guerrilla Poets paint poems on abandoned places in the neighborhood.  She is also Coordinator of Camden FireWorks, a collective of artist studios, gallery and teaching space and the future home of the FireHouse Press, in the emerging artist district known as SoBro.  Her latest chapbook of poems, Use Your Words, is currently looking for a home.




Rafi Lev has over 25 years experience in multicultural education, cross-cultural communication, interfaith dialog, leadership training, youth mentorship and intergroup relations. For six years he performed with Full Circle Theatre’s intergenerational improve troupe and has been trained in Comedy Sportz, PlayBack Theatre and Theater of the Oppressed. He was a founding 3 year member of Center City Poets and has been published in Moonstone Arts “Poetry Ink”, “The Fox Chase Review” and “ In Barcelona”. His favorite forms include haiku and tanka and he is an avid aficionado of the daily jumble. His community building efforts have ranged from volunteering with Fellowship Farm, Asian Arts initiative, Norris Square Neighborhood Project, Operation Understanding, Broad Street Ministries, Raices Culturales Latinoamericanas, the Arts and Spirituality Center and Mighty Writers. Originally from the Midwest and a lifelong linguist, he has lived and studied in South America and the Middle East, as well as worked and traveled extensively in Africa, Asia and Europe. Rafi is rumored to have one of the largest refrigerator magnet collections in the Delaware Valley. Most days, he is still searching for that elusive perfect Muse.