10:00-11:00am:  Poetic Lunacy led by Deb Burham

11:30-12:30pm:   The Power of Not Thinking led by Alyesha Wise

 

Main Building Atrium: 

2:00pm:                Reading and Crimmins Poetry Prize Winner Celebration

                                Reception to follow reading, hosted by Philadelphia Stories.  

 

 

Deborah Burnham works in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania, advising students and teaching. For over twenty-five years, she taught poetry at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts.  She is the author of Anna and the Steel Mill, winner of the First Book Award from Texas Tech University, and Still, a chapbook published by Seven Kitchens Press.  She lives in the Powelton Village section of Philadelphia where she tends several gardens.

 

Alyesha Wise aka "Ms. Wise" is an International Poet, Teaching Artist and Speaker who launched her artistic career in Philadelphia, Pa. Ms. Wise is the founder of the community arts organization, "Love, Us." In addition, Alyesha is a 2-time Women of the World Poetry Slam finalist and was the 5th ranked female poet in the world in 2010. Some of her highlights include a 2012 interview with American Film Director, Ron Howard, and being told by co-founder of Essence Magazine, Russell Goings, "In All, You Are Awesome." More info about Ms. Wise can be found at: www.MsWiseDecision 
  

Helen Klein Ross is a former creative director at top ad agencies in New York who spent over 20 years in the ad business before turning to other kinds of fiction. Her stories, poems and essays have been published by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker. Her first book, Making It, A Novel of Madison Avenue is a coming-of-middle age story about a woman and a business (advertising.) It's sort of like Mad Men thirty years later, from the point of view of an older, wiser, married Peggy Olson. Hellen has been a social media enthusiast since 2007 when she created the award-winning blog AdBroad.  

  

 

June 20-27th, 2014, Rosemont College Campus 

  

Registration is now open

 

Save The Date 

      

Stroll through the Arts

Friday, May 9 at 6:30pm

Kistler Memorial Library

  

Rosemont College celebrates works from the Publishing and Creative Writing graduate programs with a gallery of work on display, and a reading of poetry and prose.  Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served. This event is open to the public.

 

Journals & Jewels, Sunday May 18th, 4-6pm

Bertucci's Restaurant, 761 W. Lancaster Ave, Bryn Mawr

 

 

You are invited to a spaghetti dinner and Lea Sophia Jewelry party. Proceeds from the dinner and jewelry sales will benefit the development fund for the Creative Writing and Publishing graduate programs. For more information or to RSVP, email Carla Spataro at [email protected].

 

 

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