E Verse Equinox Featuring Frank Sherlock, Elizabeth Scanlon, And Rick Mullin

The latest installment of E-Verse Equinox reading series features Frank Sherlock, Elizabeth Scanlon, and Rick Mullin, hosted by Ernest Hilbert, followed by an open mic session hosted by Paul Siegell. Brandwine Workshop 730 S Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19146 (215) 546-3675 Frank Sherlock is the Poet Laureate of the City of Philadelphia, and was a Pew Fellow in the Arts for 2013. His books include Over Here; The City Real and Imagined; and Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated. His current project is “Write Your Block,” which encourages Philadelphians to write about their neighborhoods. Elizabeth Scanlon is the Editor of The American Poetry Review and teaches at The University of the Arts. Her chapbook Odd Regard was published by ixnay press in 2013, and her poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Boston Review, Colorado Review, MiPoesias, and Ploughshares. Rick Mullin is a journalist and painter whose three latest books of poetry have been published by Dos Madres Press, Loveland, OH: the book-length poem Soutine, on the painter Chaïm Soutine (2012), the collection Coelacanth (2013), and, most recently, Sonnets from the Voyage of the Beagle (Fall 2014). He is also the author of the book-length poem Huncke, published by Seven Towers, Dublin, Ireland (2010), and two chapbooks, Aquinas Flinched (Exot Books, New York, 2008) and The Stones Jones Canzones (Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, KY, 2012). Host Ernest Hilbert is the author of the poetry collections Sixty Sonnets (2009), All of You on the Good Earth (2013), and Caligulan, which will appear in hardcover in September 2015. Open-mic host Paul Siegell is a senior editor at the Painted Bride Quarterly and author of the poetry collections wild life rifle fire (Otoliths Books, 2010), jambandbootleg (A-Head Publishing, 2009) and Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008).