Marie Elizabeth Mali and Dilruba Ahmed in Fox Chase March 25th

March 25th @ 2pm – The Fox Chase Reading Series presents The Featured Poets Reading at Ryerss Museum and Library, 7370 Central Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 19111. Join us for the poetry of Marie Elizabeth Mali and Dilruba Ahmed  followed by an open mic.

Marie-Elizabeth Mali is the author of Steady, My Gaze (Tebot Bach, 2011) and is co-editor with Annie Finch of the forthcoming anthology, Villanelles (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets, 2012). She currently serves as co-curator for the Page Meets Stage reading series in New York City and served as co-curator for louderARTS: the Reading Series from 2008-2011. Before receiving her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, she practiced Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Poet Lore, and RATTLE, among others. You can visit her at http://www.memali.com and read her poetry in The Fox Chase Review at this link: http://www.foxchasereview.org/11WS/Marie-ElizabethMali.html

Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Dhaka Dust (Graywolf, July 2011), winner of the 2010 Bakeless Literary Prize for poetry, selected by Arthur Sze and awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Ahmed’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Drunken Boat, and The Normal School. Her work also appears in Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. You can visit her at http://www.dilrubaahmed.com and read her poetry in The Fox Chase Review at this link: http://www.foxchasereview.org/11WS/DilrubaAhmed.html

Next Up: Northeast Philadelphia Memorial for Poet/Teacher Louis McKee with Featured Poet Steve Delia and musical guests Mary and The Sun Bear Trio.

For our complete schedule: http://www.foxchasereview.org/12WS/docs/TheFoxChaseReadingSeriesSchedule2012.pdf

Warming up Ryerss

Special thanks to Featured Poets Nathalie Anderson and Teresa Leo for an outstanding reading at Ryerss today. Also to open mic readers Grant Clauser, Dave Worrell, Noah Cutler and Dave Matthews. Photos can be viewed at this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12065560@N04/sets/72157629096910438/

The Poetry and Art of Ellen Peckham at Dalet Gallery March 2nd through April 14th

Where: Dalet Gallery, 141 N. 2^nd Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

From March 2nd through April 14th The Dalet Gallery will dedicate its space to the many aspects of Ellen Peckham’s  work — not only prints (the dark, mystical ones containing dark poems and the colorful abstract ones that support haiku) but also collages, constructions and some quirky items of wearable art.

And if that were not challenging enough to any curator the poems, often integral to the visual work, will be featured in a reading and performance of them in musical settings by Gerald Busby. A rather a-typical “catalog” that includes information on the history and impetus of the various works from sketches and notes to finished pieces, is available and includes a CD of the music. The exhibition, book and CD are together called Continuum: the Art of Ellen Peckham for the attempt the artist has made to lead the view/reader through the history, the development of the pieces on view over, often, decades.

Irena Gobernik, Director of Dalet, describes the Gallery’s concept for the exhibit from her first visit to my studio here in New York. “At first Ellen’s environment seems distinct from the works, varied as they are in themselves. Her loft is intense with her own art (finished and in process) and that of friends. Here papier mâché sculptures co-exist with Latin American retables, Tibetian horns hang above shelves of books, glass, china, Asian and European objects large and small. Nothing vanishes in this place.”

“But moving from one work to another we realize the unity of the aesthetic. And realize we want to show Ellen Peckham’s art not as separate, perfectly performed works nor as a series united by technique or period of creation but as the record of the life of an amazing, adventurous and multi-talented person who has shrugged off being limited in expectations, styles or media.”

The reading/premier of the music is scheduled for Saturday, March 24th at 4PM.

Ellen Peckham in The Fox Chase Review: 2008 AW ; 2010 WS

Ellen Peckham’s website http://www.ellenpeckham.com/Initial.php

Dalet website http://www.daletart.com/index.shtml?e_id=35

Philadelphia Center for the Book to meet at Ryerss on Feburary 21st

Join us for our first 2012 Philadelphia Center for the Book Members & Friends Meeting at Ryerss Museum and Library, where staff member Ruth Wiley will take us on a tour of their eclectic collection.

Ryerss Museum and Library
7370 Central Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19111-3059

RSVP at events@philadelphiacenterforthebook.org

Please enter through the basement door in the rear of the building that faces the parking lot. There will be a sign. After entering, take the elevator at the end of the hall to the 2nd floor. We will be meeting in the 2nd floor gallery.

Directions from Center City:
Fox Chase Line Regional Rail-Train 6848 picks up at Suburban Station at 5:30 pm and drops off at Ryers Station at 5:59 pm.

The Fox Chase Line Regional Rail Train 857 picks up at Ryers Station at 8:22 pm drops off at Suburban at 8:47 pm.