This virtual event will feature readings by

R.G. Evans
Sheila Fox
Maria James-Thiaw
Sin Rabe

Hosted by Maria Masington

This event is sponsored by Raven Rabbit Ram and The Mad Poets Society

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R.G. Evans’s books include Overtipping the Ferryman (Aldrich Poetry Press Prize), The Holy Both, and Imagine Sisyphus Happy. His original songs were featured in the poetry documentaries All That Lies Between Us and Unburying Malcolm Miller, and his collection of original songs, Sweet Old Life, is available on most streaming platforms. Evans teaches creative writing at Rowan University. Website: www.rgevanswriter.com

Sheila Fox has been writing poetry since she was a teenager - she is now almost seventy-five.  She has read at The Mad Poet’s Society Annual Poetry Festival and at Rebel Wind Poetry Uprising - as well as reading her poetry to small groups. Sheila worked as a Clinical Social Worker and family therapist for forty years.  She had a private practice in psychotherapy and taught Clinical Social Work on the graduate level. Currently she has a psychotherapy practice in Archetypal Dream Work. Sheila has been a serious painter for twenty-four years.  Her work is abstract expressionist, and she has shown her work in New York City and in many galleries in the Philadelphia area.  Sheila’s work is based on feeling states in dreams,  and in social activism. For the last two years she has focused on her poetry.  Sheila  is working on her first publication - a series of poems and paintings based on passionate aging.

Maria James-Thiaw is a gifted literary artist with a unique talent for translating story into poetry, and weaving poetry into a virtual quilt of social justice-themed spoken word for the stage. Her publications include poetry and reviews in several literary journals such as New Letters, Cutthroat Journal of the Arts, One Trick Pony Review, and Black Magnolias, as well as a spoken word CD entitled FREEverse. Her poems have been featured in Black Lives Have Always Mattered, Come Shining: On Writing in A Dark Time, and other anthologies, and in the following collections: Windows to the Soul (Shippensburg University Press, 1999), Rising Waters (Shippensburg University Press, 2003), Talking “White” (postDada Press, 2013), Count Each Breath (Wild Ink Publishing, 2022) As a performance poet, Maria gracefully bridges the gap between stage and page by delivering her well-crafted lyric poetry with the dramatic power of a seasoned spoken word artist.

Sin Rabe is a writer, artist, and practicing occultist from Harrisburg, Pa. He studies esoterica, philosophy, and erotica. He facilitates a local poetry workshop and is a regular reader at the Blacklisted Poets of Harrisburg events. Sin believes poetry and art are the truest expressions of our desires, fears, and fantasies. He strives to explore these themes in the subtle darkness, esoteric muse, and hermetics that are the core of his work.