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POETRY MONTH: YOUNG VOICES IN PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia is a poetry city, with a vibrant, diverse range of
different poetry microclimates, poets, readings, and workshops
everywhere you go.

Nobody exemplifies this energy and diversity more than the city's
younger poets. Here, we offer seven poets 30 and younger, reading from
their verse.

Elliot Levy
is a senior at Harriton High School of Lower Merion and enrolled in the International Baccalaureate program. He saw a documentary on spoken-word poetry...
Jaime Gianna Picano
grew up on a ranch outside of Napa, California, and started writing very young. Initially a novelist, she self-published her first book, The Mood Ring...
Munashe Mtausi Gwaradzimba
writes : « I am from Mberengwa, Zimbabwe, and I am studying accounting at the University of Pennsylvania. I also intend to minor in philosophy...
Michelle Taransky
was born in Camden. Her first book, Barn Burned, Then, was selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize. A graduate of the University...
Nick Gettino
grew up in Upstate New York and is currently a sophomore at Swarthmore College. He works as an intern for Saturnalia Books in Ardmore and has assisted...
Lovella Calica
is founder and director of Warrior Writers, a creative community for veterans articulating their experiences. She's a Michigan native and now resides...
Luke Stromberg
received his B.A. and M.A. in English at West Chester University. While there, , he studied poetry under locally-born poets Kate Northrop and Alexander...
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