April 6, Marci Nelligan, is featured poet at the Midtown Scholar

Marci Nelligan, who teaches creative writing at Franklin & Marshall College, is featured at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore reading series on April 6, 2017
She's been published in numerous journals, including Chain, syllogism, Free Lunch, and the Walrus.

Nelligan's Infinite Variations was published with Black Radish Books in 2011. Nelligan’s second full-length collection The Ghost Manada is her most recent tome.
Marci Nelligan’s Ghost Manada is a book of insistent absence in conversation with her own shade songs. The book is an intertext of experimental lyrics speaking to and through Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and the spirit of Emily Dickinson.

This special event is hosted by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is located at 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102, for more information, 717.236.1680

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Upcoming events, Poetry Cartel. Thursdays at the Scholar:

April 13-- Open mic
April 20-- Maria James-Thiaw
April 27-- Open mic

May 6-- Open mic
May 11-- Majorie Maddox
May 18-- Open mic
May 25-- D.M. Spitzer

June 6-- Patricia Lockwood
June 8-- Barbara Crooker
June 15-- Open mic
June 22-- Gary Miller
June 29-- Open mic



Craig Czury Sings Spring at the Poetry Cartel reading series

Then: Craig Czury in a Leafy Kitchen

Now: March 9, Craig Czury reading at the Poetry Cartel's ongoing series at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1303 Third St., right across from the Broad Street Market. So, park over there in the diagonal parking spots, then walk over to the Scholar & get verse & caffeine and & act as though Spring has arrived just in time to bask in the glory of this one special evening. Yeah.
Everything's waiting for you.
7 to 9 pm, at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA.
1302 North Third Street, 17102. Call 717.236.1680 for more information.

Philip Wheeler Featured October 13, Midtown Scholar Bookstore

Our featured performer October 13 at Midtown Scholar bookstore's Poetry Thursdays is Philip Wheeler, poet, and actor from Harrisburg.

Following vocational stints in the military and corporate arenas, Wheeler appeared in 2005 as Harrisburg, PA's public art piece, "Human, Being." He followed that in 2006 with the one-man show "Being, In Harrisburg" discussing the year's experiences.

Wheeler began acting with the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival in their Fall 2007 production of Titus Andronicus and continued in the ensuing years with roles in HSF's mainstage productions ( Philip Wheeler's work with HSF led him to meet most of the ADK Shakes Board; he first appeared with the company in 2008, joyous in the intensity and end result of the Shakespeare IN THE RAW experience.

A philosopher and writer, actor, restaurant employee, theatrical stagehand, percussionist, sound engineer, and avid air guitar competitor, he's presented poetry in Central Pennsylvania at previous Poetry Thursdays traveling venues. His verse was part of A Poet's Tour of Harrisbug, the performance, and a book from GoodSport Press, 2007.

This reading, hosted by the Poetry Cartel, begins with an open mic, after a short break, Wheeler's presentation begins. Midtown Scholar Bookstore is located at1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102, Call 717.236.1680.

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Jack Veasey Memorial reading August 25 at Midtown Scholar Bookstore

August 25, Jack Veasey Memorial reading at Midtown Scholar Bookstore

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Poetry Thursdays, August 25, the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel will be presenting a Jack Veasey Memorial reading at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. There will be an open reading and a featured presentation of Veasey's poems by Harrisburg poet laureate Rick Kearns. Other readers include Lauren Gross, Bill Fritz, Anna Jones, Randy Gross and more.

Jack Veasey, far left, after a reading at Ryerss Museum & Library in Philadelphia. Also: Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, Bill Fritz, Christine O'Leary-Rockey, Marty Esworthy, and Maria James-Thiaw.

Philadelphia native and Hummelstown Poet Jack Veasey passed away July 15. Jack was a fine man and an excellent poet. In recent years there'd been a resurgence in interest and publication of his work, most recently with Veasey's The Dance That Begins And Begins and, also Selected Poems 1973-2013 released by Poet's Press.

The reading, hosted by the Poetry Cartel, will go from 7-9pm.

Poetry Thursdays, since 1999, a continuing poetry series, is now held weekly at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 N. Third Street in Harrisburg, PA, 17102. For more information, (717) 236-1680.

"Eclectic Versifier" Roger Cowden to Perform at Midtown Scholar Bookstore

On April 7th the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel will feature Roger Cowden, an exciting “New Verser” mixing experimental phrasing and manner "with [a] subtle, often deapan, yet compelling, delivery."



The event, at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg, will begin with an open reading, and the feature will commence about 8pm (Eastern Poet Time) after a brief intermission.

Roger Cowden hails from Indiana, but was "poetically raised in central Pennsylvania" as a mainstay at the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel readings. He's been strongly influenced by the latest "ambient wordsmithing" styles, yet Cowden has developed his own unique "jigsaw verse, a striking form" and structure. His minimalist approach to spoken word performance demands patience and an open mind-- it's been described as both“harrowing” and surprising. His content leans to a "focus on surrealism, relationships, and the truth behind dreams.

Cowden often challenges audiences to hang him with 'the noose' he provides."

Cowden has been featured at readings throughout the Mid-Atlantic states, but has honed presentation and delivery around his “home” with the Almost Uptown group. Cowdens work has been published in numerous small press and college compilations, and he is "currently cobbling together a collection" of more recent work.

This event is part of Poetry Thursdays, a continuing poetry series, held weekly at the Midtown Scholar. 1302 N. 3rd Street. For more information, (717) 236-1680.

Open Poetry Readings March 24, March 31, Midtown Scholar Bookstore

March 24, 31. Poetry. Midtown Scholar Bookstore, every Thursday, hosted by the Almost uptown Poetry cartel, Stop by, listen, hey! let your voice be heard.

Share. Shout it out, stir it up! Everything's waiting for you.

"...She perched in a limegreen frog, cool as mint by a shining pool. She trotted in a brambly dog and barked to hear echoes from the sides of distant barns. She lived in new April grasses, in sweet clear liquids rising from the musky earth. It's spring, thought Cecy. I'll be in every living thing in the world tonight. Now she inhabited neat crickets on the tar-pool roads, now prickled in dew on an iron gate." ...The wind whipped her away over fields and meadows.... --The April Witch, Ray Bradbury

Poetry Thursdays, a poetry series-- open mic and featured performers-- 7--9pm in the Internet Cafe at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102, Phone: 717.236.1680.
/> --"The Weight" Maury Lebreiro