...language is viral, time marches on, local artist showcase August 5th

Sound is a pressure wave, language is virulent, time marches on 


From 2pm until 8pm, August 5, there’ll be a Local Artist Showcase-- a gathering of Pennsylvania artists who will perform and sell their artwork. Sounds like a Sunday kinda thang?

Come to Cameron Street in the burg, connect with other artists. Music, Dance, Poetry performances, Books, Paintings, Fashion, Sculpture, and more will be, like, all over the place. 

Lindsey Simmons will be there, and Kevyn Knox. Listen for Jose Morales, Meghan Morrison, and Marty Esworthy. See works by Nicole Herbert and Michael Washienko, to name a few.



           So, hey, it all happens               August 5th from 2pm to 8pm 
           at the Appalachian Brewing Company 
        50 N Cameron St, Harrisburg, PA 17101. 
           Tickets are $7 at the door.

                             there is still time brother..

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August 16, Midtown Scholar, Marty Esworthy & Erika Eberly

 MARTY ESWORTHY (a/k/a ZUKY THE K) 

         AND ERIKA EBERLY

will be presenting hip, incendiary verse at

 the MidtownScholar August 16.      

Mark your calendars, hug your children and be ready, damn it, it's time.

Yes-- Marty Esworthy & Erika Eberly featured at the Midtown Scholar

Bookstore, Third and Verbeke. 17102.

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Michael R. Brown featured performer July 26 at Midtown Scholar Bookstore.

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July 26 at Poetry Thursdays, Michael R. Brown will be featured performer at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg, PA. Keith Snow will be guest host for this occasion, and he'll also moderate a brief open reading before Brown's performance.

Michael R. Brown was born in Philadelphia in the first half of the last century. He grew up in Marietta and Columbia and graduated from Lancaster Catholic High School.

He attended the University of Scranton and taught in an all-black, all-girls high school.  His university work included a dissertation in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance.

Brown has had four books of poetry published: FallingWallendas, Tia Chucha (1994); The Man Who Makes Amusement Rides, Hanover Press (2003); Susquehanna, Ragged Sky (2003); The Confidence Man, Ragged Sky (2007).  

Michael R. Brown was part of the burgeoning slam poetry movement in Chicago back in the day and was instrumental in spreading the phenomenon throughout New England.  He and Patricia Smith established The Cantab (1992) in Cambridge, MA, carried the slam to Sweden, and led a US national championship team in 1993.

He and Erkki Lappalainen organized the first Poetry Olympics in Stockholm in 1998. He also created Dr. Brown’s Traveling Poetry Show, a two-hour theater production.

From 2008 until 2016, Brown, and his wife Valerie Lawson put out Off the Coast, an international poetry quarterly. In 2017 they established Resolute Bear Press, which published a book of his political poems, The Martin Bormann Dog, Care Book, and her 3 Nations Anthology with writing from Canada, Native American people, and New Englanders.

The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel hosts Poetry Thursdays, a long time reading series, every Thursday evening, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North Third Street, (across from the Broad Street Market) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17102.  Ph: 717.236.1680.

Rick Kearns-- an exciting midsummer performance at the Midtown Scholar, July 12

Surprise! Rick Kearns will be dazzling mid-staters
with amazing verse during a special midsummer
performance at the Midtown Scholar!

Foothills Publishing issued a collection of Kearns poetry called Rufino’s Secret in December 2012.  
His poetry has also been published in three chapbooks and two full collections: Street of Knives
(Warm Springs Press, 1993), Boricua In Between(1997), Jazz Poems (1997), Endtime Poems,
(1998, Pacobooks), and in 2007 he published The Body of My Isla.  Red Pagoda Press has
published five of his poems in brochure form since 2000.

Kearn’s is a heckuva performer, Here's a taste:
https://soundcloud.com/rickkearnsconalma/the-moon-rides-a-black-horse-r  

From seven until nine p.m. on Thursday, July 12,
Rick Kearns will be featured at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore.

more info: 717.236.1680.

Coming: July 26, Michael R. Brown will be featured poet.

June 21, Annie Ginder featured at Poetry Thursdays

Annie Ginder featured at Poetry Cartel Event

Annie Ginder is a talented poet and singer/songwriter. For many years Ginder performed covers and her own tunes, accompanying herself on guitar, as well as giving readings of her gritty, clever and insightful poems. She has done readings in the Central Pa region and throughout the Eastern Seaboard.

She's a compelling performer. Ginder's verse has been characterized as "both precise-- to the point-- and fierce. Regardless of subject matter there's always an edge. like thunder bursting through filigrees of green forest."

Poetry events, all open to the public, are happening every Thursday, hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. at the, Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102. More info: (717) 236-1680.

March 15, Poetry Thursdays at Midtown Scholar

Poetry Cartel Event, open mic, Midtown Scholar

Open poetry reading, March 15, Poetry Thursdays at Midtown Scholar, just across the street
from the Market House on Third, and, to the left, or South, a postal box, with requisite graffiti,
& a coupla trees on Verbeke.

This event, 7--9pm, is hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel.

A theme is suggested for events, this weeks’ theme is like-- Ides of March. But, the theme
mandatory, just a suggestion. Read what you like. Sit and just listen, if you want.
But,the poetry’s pretty good, and if you’re inspired, jump in.

The Scholar is sitting pretty, with a marquee that says MIDTOWN, at 1301 North Third Street,

and a two-hour open reading with roughly, an eight minute, 47 second break around 7:55pm.

No sign-up sheet, it's all Quaker style.

Everything’s waiting for you.
Hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel,

Listen, share. Declaim. Yeah! (717) 236-1680.

Open-Poetry-Reading, March 8, Midtown Scholar

Open Mic, March 8th

Early-March Open-Poetry-Reading, March 8.

Continuous verse, Midtown Scholar Bookstore,
every Thursday, hosted by the Almost Uptown
Poetry Cartel.

Listen, share. Declaim. Let your spirit soar.
1302 N. 3rd St. 17102. 7-- 9pm. (717) 236-1680

Stop by,

maybe read your poetry.

Or, that favorite poem
that first inspired you to read

or write poetry. Share it. Own it.

We’d really like to hear it. No kidding.