POETSWEDNESDAY & More

Leigh Phillips at Barron Arts Center, Wednesday, 8/14/13, 8PM (Workshop at 7)

PoetsWednesday

582 Rahway Ave., Woodbridge, NJ,
732-634-0413

 

Wednesday

August 14, 2013, 8PM

Featuring

Leigh Phillips

 

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Open Mic to
Follow

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Workshop at 7:00PM

with

Leigh Phillips

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Free

Refreshments
Supplied by Wegmans

Donations Are
Greatly Appreciated

Thanks to Cynthia
Knight, BAC Director, Brandon Powell, staff, and

The Woodbridge
Cultural Arts Commission with the

support of Mayor
John McCormac

 

PoetsWednesday
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Directions: http://www.twp.woodbridge.nj.us/Departments/BarronArtsCenter/BarronArtsCenterDirections/tabid/754/Default.aspx

Contact: Deborah
LaVeglia, Poetry Director, at [email protected]

Featuring on
Wednesday, September 11, 2013: Lois Harrod & John
McDermott

Dear New York City, Learn Gentle by Leigh Phillips

Dear New York City, Learn
Gentle

The sky regrets itself. By sky, I mean me.
Don't let yourself get lost
because you think someone's going to find
you. The story goes: no one's

going to find you. You're going to be on the
highway sifting Mountain Dew
bottles full of
trucker crank piss and trading
them to eye‑wild tweakers

for a ticket back to tender. You are what is
tender. By you, I mean me.
The song goes: Heart. Ribcage. Envelope.
Heart. Ribcage. Envelope.

 

                                                                     --Leigh Phillips,

                                                                        Thrush Poetry Jnl, March 2013

Leigh Phillips

Leigh Phillips is an Assistant Professor of English at Hostos
Community College with the City University of New York. Her stories, memoirs,
poems and criticism most recently appeared in Rhino, So to Speak: A
Feminist Journal of Language and Art, and A Face to Meet the Faces: An
Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry, edited by Stacey Lynn Brown and
Oliver de la Paz. She is currently writing an epistolary novel in verse,
generously funded by a grant from the City University of New York Research
Foundation. In addition, she is a political activist committed to the prison
reform/prison abolition movement, and racial profiling in the greater New York
City area. She lives by the following: "A poem can inspire
a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution. Civil disobedience can arouse
people and provoke us to think, when we organize with one another, when we get
involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no
government can suppress." -Howard Zinn