This virtual event will feature readings by
Amelia Chick
Amy Laub
Ann E. Michael
Alyse Richmond
Hosted by Maria Masington
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BIOS
Amelia Chick (she/they), is a Harrisburg-based generalist artist. She has been studying and performing improv and sketch since 2013 and performs on teams like "Barbra" and "Rockstar Goes Supernova" at the Harrisburg Improv Theatre, where she coaches and teaches musical improv as well as UCB-style game. She has acted in community theater since 2017. She also performs original music as Same Each and plays lead guitar for songwriter Autumn Sky Hall. Amelia creates film and writes sketch comedy, poetry, short stories, and recently wrote their first stage play. Her favorite food is noodles.
Amy E. Laub’s poems discuss the weather, seasons, landscapes, and everyday people and events with clear, simple language. She doesn’t really write poetry; it’s more like taking notes as fast as she can. A long-time member of the Mad Poets Society, Amy has, since September 2003, been hosting the MPS Critique Circle on second Wednesdays at the Community Arts Center in Wallingford, PA, where she is proudly entrenched in the pro-punctuation faction. She retired from working full-time as a secretary in a public school district’s curriculum department. She reads, plays backgammon, and swims laps (not at the same time), and lives in Upper Darby, PA. HOUSEHOLD GOODS – POEMS ABOUT HOME is her third collection of poems; the first is titled WHAT WATER SAYS (2021), and the second is THERE IS NO CURE FOR THIS: OCEAN AND MOON POEMS (2022).
Ann E. Michael lives in eastern Pennsylvania, where she raised two children, gardened extensively and, for many years, ran the writing center at DeSales University. Her most recent book, The Red Queen Hypothesis, won the 2022 Prairie State Poetry Prize; she’s the author of Water-Rites (2012) and six chapbooks. Her next collection, Abundance/Diminishment, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books in the spring of 2024. She maintains a long-running blog at www.annemichael.blog
Alyse Richmond (they/them) is a certified arborist and master gardener living in Pittsburgh with two goofball cats. They earned their MFA in creative writing at Chatham University and have published a few things here and there.