Neighbor Ballads

The Neighbor Ballads project is a public art installation available for the taking from honor boxes in South Philly. These seven poems celebrate figures from immigrant communities that continue to shape one of Philadelphia's most diverse and storied neighborhoods.

It's been a pleasure to meet and work with the friends, families and figures themselves that make this project a reality. Big ups to collaborator Erik Ruin for his visual design and box installation.

Where you can find them:

Antonio Isoleri- 9th & Carpenter
Frank Snock- 9th & Washington
Fabiola Canto- 9th & Ellsworth
Ba Nguyen- 9th & Passyunk
Bill McIntyre- 10th & Dickinson
Dorothy Allen- Cross & Passyunk
Joe Tayoun- Passyunk & Morris

The installation is a component of Journeys South, a neighborhood-wide Mural Arts Program initiative . Check out all the great installations that comprise Journeys South.

Conrad, Zurawski & Me

I'll be reading with CAConrad & Magdalena Zurawski this Saturday in Raleigh-Durham.

Saturday April 23 at 8pm
Women's Studies Lounge
East Duke Building,
Duke University East Campus

Carolina peoples, I'll see you there.

You Can Feel Good About

Check out my new poem for Zoe Strauss on Jupiter 88. You should feel good about it. If not, feel good about the fact that you don't feel good about it. Either way, just relax & feel it.

PoemTalk: I'd Like to See It That Way

Julia Bloch, Linh Dinh & I discuss Norman Fischer's I'd Like to See It on PENNSOUND's PoemTalk. Take a listen...

Windows and Mirrors- Friday November 5

Windows and Mirrors
Reflections on the War in Afghanistan
AFSC Arch Street Meeting House
4th & Arch Street
November 5 @ 8pm

Frank Sherlock, Carlos Soto Roman, Mytili Jagannathan & CAConrad will join members of Warrior Writers for a reading at the Windows and Mirrors exhibition. The traveling exhibit provides an opportunity to see ourselves in depictions of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of artists and children.

For more on the Windows and Mirrors project, click here.

Reading w/ CAConrad & Danbert Nobacon of Chumbawamba

Giovanni's Room presents
CAConrad, Frank Sherlock & Danbert Nobacon
Monday October 18
Giovanni's Room
12th & Pine Street @5:30pm

CAConrad & Frank Sherlock read from The City Real & Imagined. Danbert Nobacon celebrates the release of Three Dead Princes: an Anarchist Fairytale. See you there.

Audio from The City Real & Imagined at the ICA

PennSound Daily posted the audio from The City Real & Imagined book launch at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art. I forgot about the cellphone music in the very beginning, but somehow it works with the piece as an impromptu introduction.

For your listening pleasure... click here.

You can also read Rachel Blau DuPlessis' proper introduction for the event here.