Ouzoonian and King in Fox Chase June 27th

The Fox Chase Review and The Mad Poets Society

 Present

The Fox Chase Reading Series

@ 3 Sisters Corner Café

Corner of Barnes and Loney Streets

Fox Chase Section

Philadelphia, Pa. 19111

June 27, 2009

2pm to 4pm

Featured Poets: Amy King and Amy Ouzoonian

 

Amy King is the author of I’m the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, both from Blazevox Books, The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press), and most recently, Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country (Dusie Press). She edits the Poetics List, sponsored by The Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania), moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv (WOMPO), and teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. Her poems have been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and she has been the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry. Amy King was also the 2007 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere. She is currently editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School. For information on the reading series Amy co-curates, go to The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series blog.

 

Amy Ouzoonian is an Armenian-American poet, playwright, journalist and artist. She received her BA in Journalism and Creative Writing for the Theater from SUNY New Paltz. She is the author of Your Pill (Foothills Publishing, 2004) and is the editor of two anthologies: Skyscrapers, Taxis and Tampons (Fly By Night Press, 1999) and In the Arms of Words: Poems for Tsunami Relief (Sherman Asher Press, 2005). 

You can read the poetry of Amy King and Amy Ouzoonian in the 2008 Autumn/Winter Edition of the Fox Chase Review.

 An Open Mic follows the featured readers.

Transportation: Our venues are located one block from the Septa Fox Chase Station. The station is 15 minutes from Market East Station via the R-8 in Center City. The Fox Chase Bus Loop also services the 18 and 24