Mark thy calendar (again) …

P O E T R Y   I N   C O M M O N
& THE GREEN LINE CAFE 
READING & INTERVIEW SERIES
PRESENT:

AN OPEN POETRY READING +

THE 2018 RONALD JOHNSON 
POETRY AWARD
FOR BEST POEM – (& $50. in Poetry Books)

Judges: DITTA BARON HOEBER
                                & EILEEN D’ANGELO

TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2018 7 PM

(Each poet receives 4 minutes to read)
Sign up in advance:
gontarek9@earthlink.net

HOSTED BY 
LEONARD GONTAREK 

THE GREEN LINE CAFE IS LOCATED 
AT 45TH & LOCUST STREETS
Philadelphia PA

(Please note the address, there are
  other Green Line Café locations.)
        greenlinecafe.com

     This Event Is Free


Eileen M. D’Angelo, Editor of  Mad Poets Review, has poetry and book reviews published or forthcoming in Rattle, Manhattan Poetry Review, Drexel Online Journal, Paterson Literary Review, Wild River Review, Philadelphia Stories, One Trick Pony, Midwest Poetry Review, The Independent Review, Aurealean, HiNgE, Philadelphia Poets, SVJ and others. She judged the Philadelphia area open auditions for the pilot program of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Additionally, she led workshops or performed original songs and poetry all over the Greater Philly area, New York and New Jersey, on radio and public television stations, and at such venues as WXPN - World Café Live, St. Joseph’s University, Rutgers, Rosemont College, Kelly Writers House, Manayunk Art Center, Hedgerow Theatre, Delco Community College, Montco Writers Conference, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, and Delco Womem’s Conference. As Director of Mad Poets since 1987, she coordinated over 1500 special events in the tri-state area. 




Ditta Baron Hoeber is an artist and a poet.  Her recent poetry publications have been in the American Journal of Poetry, New American Writing, The American Poetry Review, Per Contra along with a suite of her photographs, Calypso Friends and Nthposition.  She has work forthcoming this spring in Construction Magazine and has been nominated this year for a Pushcart Prize.

Her photographs, drawings and book works have been exhibited nationally and have been acquired by several artist book and photography collections including those at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the University of Pennsylvania, the Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection at MOMA, Oberlin College and Chelsea College of Art & Design in London.  You can see Ditta and some of her books at the Philadelphia Art Book Fair on June 2 and 3 at the Armory.



Coming Up, June 19:

Poetry & Music –


Sekai ‘afua Zankel
& Bobby Zankel