Poetry Thursdays, Open Mic, September 5th

"Vrooom! Poetry with Verve".  Photo credit: Marty Esworthy

Vrooom! Poetry with Verve

Open mic: c'mon out-- declaim like it matters!
Third Street. Poetry Thursdays, September 5th.
Listen to passionate versifying or jump in & perform
your own work, or cover your favorite poets. 
Don't put it off, it's September, everything's waiting for you.

This event's hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel
at Midtown Scholar Bookstore. (717)236-1680.


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There will be two other open poetry readings this month:
September 12th and the 18th.

On September 26,
former York poet laureate, Carla Christopher,
(shown here, left)
will be our featured performer.

A brief open reading will precede Christopher's performance.

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Poetry Thursdays, Open Mic, September 5th

photo credit: Marty Esworthy

Poetry Thursdays, Open Mic, September 5th

photo credit: Marty Esworthy

Poetry Thursdays, Open Mic, September 5th

photo credit: Marty Esworthy

OPEN MIC POETRY THURSDAYS, Poetry Cartel hosts

ANOTHER OPEN MIC AT POETRY THURSDAYS

There'll be an open reading at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, August 29.
It's all happening at 1302 N. Third Street in Harrisburg’s vibrant Midtown district.
Last week we had a sensational crowd. Le Hinton was featured,
his reading was compelling.

Poetry Thursday's legendary poetry series has been going on for
twenty years in various locations. From venue to venue there's always been poetry every Thursday.

September is nigh. The world changes, the days dwindle down to a precious few. Always, there's poetry on Thursday evenings.
Count on it.

This event is hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.

Every Thursday-- poetry for all, everything's waiting for you.

--mge

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Carla Christopher will be our featured performer in September.
September 26 if you're counting.

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August Activities, Poetry Thursdays, open mics, & the fabulous Le Hinton

AUGUST 2019-- Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel: Poetry Thursdays

Le Hinton, August 15, 2019 • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Midtown Scholar, 1302 3rd St. Harrisburg

There will be a brief
open mic prior to
Hinton's performance.

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Le Hinton, special guest.

Le Hinton, founder, Iris G. Press

The poet, publisher, and literary impresario will be featured August 15 at Poetry Thursdays, hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel at Harrisburg's Midtown Scholar. 7pm. 1302 N 3rd St, Harrisburg, PA 17102.

An open reading will precede the
feature presentation. Two open mics will round out Poetry Thursdays' August events.

In September, Carla Christopher will be featured, and on October first, Maria James-Thiaw will be featured on the mighty Susquehanna. She'll be
performing live on a riverboat,
The Pride of the Susquehanna,
without a net!
Watch this space for details.

(The Poetry Cartel also has a facebook page
where information abounds. "Everything old
is new again. The world turns & turns."
--Marty Esworthy)

--mge

Heather Thomas, featured July 25 at Midtown Scholar Bookstore

A fine experimental poet, Heather Thomas writes books that flash in your mind.

She has a visionary imagination and the technical brilliance to show it forth in startling imagery.

She's been published in numerous literary journals. Her latest tome, Vortex Street, was published by FutureCycle Press in 2018.

In an earlier collection of poems, Blue Ruby, FootHills Press, Thomas, coming soon to the Poetry Thursdays' reading series in Harrisburg, weaves together themes from her own life with critical events in the contemporary world.
“Blue Ruby,” the title poem, incises the rebirth of the body after a long silence. Thomas handles metaphors of fire and blood succinctly in a one-sentence poem:

Blue Ruby

when the blue flame
of buried feeling breaks
the prison of red glass
the glass my father drank from
in that burning, in that breaking
of what must be broken
what must burn
the blue ruby forms
from blood when it touches the air
from the body when it is born.

The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel, hosts, Poetry Thursdays, a long-running reading series which takes place weekly at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 N. Third Street, Harrisburg. 717.236.1680.

Events are co-sponsored by the Cartel and the bookstore.
Literary festivities begin at 7pm and run until 9. Everything's waiting for you.


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Coming in August (15th), Le Hinton.
See, hear Carla Chistopher as Autumn
leaves start to fall. In October, Third
Annual Poet's Cruise.
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