 MUSEHOUSE:
A CENTER FOR THE LITERARY ARTS
The Musehouse will be hosting the MCPL Annual Poet Laureate
Event on Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 7pm. Celebrity Judge
and Director of Musehouse, Kathleen
Sheeder Bonnano will present the award to the winner
of the competition and read from her book, Slamming
Open the Door.
Musehouse: A Center for the Literary Arts
7924 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118
Tel: 267-331-9552
Email: musehousecenter@ymail.com
Website: www.musehousecenter.com
 NHS
HUMAN SERVICES OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY
MCPL and NHS
Human Services of Montgomery County are teaming up to
launch three Workshops (1 ½ hours each, on a week
night) at WVPL in Blue Bell starting in 2012. Poetry and
Resilience is founded by 2011 MCPL Amy
Small-McKinney. The mission is to use poetry as a positive
tool for helping teens discover their voices through the
use of poetry; a way for youth to discover their strength
and resiliency in the face of challenges. Learn
more on this program here.
 PHILADELPHIA
WRITERS' CONFERENCE, INC. (PWC)
MCPL
is joining with the the Philadelphia Writers' Conference
(PWC) and Musehouse: A Center for the Literary Arts. PWC
Free Forums will be held at the Musehouse (7924 Germantown
Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118) on the first Thursday of
every month, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM, beginning with readings
by award-winning PoetryWITS student poets. This event is
free and open to the public.
For
an upcoming schedule go
here
 VINE
& FIG TREE BISTRO
Vine & Fig Tree Bistro (in Doylestown PA) will host
MCPL's A
Poetry Forus Reading: A Collage of Voices. The reading consists
of 4 women and 4 men. The masculine and feminine voices
are alternated so with each new segment, a new perspective
is presented. Vine & Fig Tree, a truly comfortable,
warm and inviting BYO Bistro is now serving a relaxed all-day
breakfast and mid-day lunch menu. Casual bistro dinners
with simple desserts are available Thursday through Sunday
evenings. Seasonal outdoor dining is available on our patio.
Learn
more here.
 ACT
II PLAYHOUSE
In
April 2012, Poetry Noir will present full-length screening
of The Night of the Hunter (1955) at Act II Playhouse
(56 E. Butler Ave, Ambler PA). A poetry reading featuring
selected community poets will follow the screening of the
film! The poets will read their original poems inspired
by different elements in this film.
Learn more here.
 THEATRE
HORIZON
MCPL
and Theatre Horizon (208 Dekalb Street, Norristown PA) are
teaming up for “Norristown Night”. In celebration
of National Poetry Month, 2011 MCPL Amy Small-McKinney will
open the evening of theatre with an original poem commissioned
on the themes of the Pulitzer Prize winning drama, How I
Learned To Drive, by Paula Vogel. Theatre
Horizon wants to welcome friends of MCPL by offering a discounted
ticket price of $10 per ticket. Learn
more here.
 AMBLER
PUBLIC LIBRARY
PoetryWITS and the Ambler Library are joining together to
raise awareness and funds. Beginning this year, PoetryWTS
will be accepting an optional donation of $5 (five dollars)
for the Ambler Public Library in support of its mission
“to support literacy, life long learning, informational
resources, and life enrichment for all of its patrons by
providing community based physical and electronic access
to collections of print and media and supporting effective
and enjoyable use of these collections... particularly committed
to providing the children of our community appropriate environments,
activities and collections that support information and
arts literacy.” Please
join us in this outreach
to the Ambler
Public Library!
 ARCADIA
UNIVERSITY
Arcadia Graduate Student Nicole
Adams (Nikki) will fulfill her graduate internship requirement
by completing a variety of poetry tasks within
the MCPL community.
For more details please go here.
 THE
FRIENDS OF GRAEME PARK
MCPL is joining The Friends of Graeme Park on The
Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson Award in Formal Poetry -
which will be a yearly award of $250 to a High School School
Student (grades 9-12) from Montgomery, Bucks, Chester, Delaware,
or Philadelphia counties who has submitted the best example
of a poem written in any form. The award will be given at
the annual MCPL Awards Ceremony. For
more information on The
Friends of Graeme Park visit
their website here.
 MOLLY
MAGUIRE'S (LANSDALE)
Molly Maguire's - Irish Restaurant & Pub in Lansdale
will be the host venue of Montco
Poet's Wordshop. Held the first Tuesday of every month,
this
workshop-style gathering is an opportunity for serious writers
to share and discuss their work in a cooperative setting
among peers.
For
more information on Molly Maguire's Restaurant & Pub
visit
their website here.
 THE
AMBLER THEATER
MCPL and Poetry Noir will be collaborating with The Ambler
Theater. In October
2010 and March
2011, they screened a full length feature film as part
of our Poetry Noir series. The Ambler Theater will also
be hosting the 2011 MCPL Poet
Laureate Awards Celebration on Wednesday, April 20,
2011. For
more information on The Ambler Theater visit
their website here.
 BRIAR
BUSH NATURE CENTER
Children take over the Treetops Art Gallery this spring,
as we present the opening of “Abington Wild,”
a celebration of local plants and animals as artistically
rendered by local school students. Come join us for a special
reception featuring live entertainment and kid-friendly
refreshments supplied by Whole Foods of Jenkintown. The
Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program (MCPL) is inviting
students to participate in a nature art show by submitting
poems inspired by native plants and animals. We are
looking for 15-20 student poems to be displayed in the gallery
amongst fellow students artwork. For
more information on Briar Bush Nature Center visit
their website here.
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