This event will feature readings by:

Maya Pindyck
Dave Worrell

Open mic to follow. Hosted by Sibelan Forrester

Community Arts Center
414 Plush Mill Road
Wallingford PA 19086

Maya Pindyck's third book of poems, Impossible Belonging (Anhinga Press, 2023), won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is co-author of the educational resource A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers (Bloomsbury, 2022). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Plume, Bennington Review, Pleiades, Granta Magazine (Hebrew edition), and Laurel Review's The Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology, and her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She lives in Philadelphia where she is an assistant professor and director of Writing at Moore College of Art & Design.

Dave Worrell’s verse memoir “Runnemede Boy” was published by Parnilis Media in 2023. His chapbook “We Who Were Bound” was published in August 2012 by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. His limited-edition ekphrastic collection “Close to Home” appeared in 2015, featuring paintings by Catherine Kuzma. Dave’s poems have appeared in Slant, Canary, Shot Glass Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and elsewhere. He has performed his music-backed poems at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia and The Cornelia Street Café in New York.