Welcome to the 2020 Mad Poets Festival! We’re taking the show on the virtual road this year because COVID-19 couldn’t keep us from sharing these phenomenal poets and their works with the world. So, sit back, grab a drink, and prepare to be inspired!
View the Group #5 performances here.
Group #5 Bios
Lisa DeVuono has produced several multi-media shows using music, poetry, and dance. She wrote the curriculum Poetry as a Tool for Recovery: An Easy-to-Use Guide in Eight Sessions facilitating workshops with individuals living with mental health challenges, cancer patients, and teens in recovery. Her book is entitled Poems from the Playground of Risk.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Khaliah D. Pitts is a writer, culinary artist and curator. a lifelong creative and griot, she is continuously engaging in new forms of expression and storytelling. Khaliah dedicates her work to preserving culture + documenting stories of the African diaspora, crafting spaces of liberation and joy.
Chris Kaiser’s poetry has been published in Eastern Iowa Review, Better Than Starbucks, and The Scriblerus. It appeared in Action Moves People United, a music and spoken word project partnered with the United Nations. He’s won awards for journalism and lives in suburban Philadelphia.
Camelia Nocella, author of poetic autobiography, it has been a long time since, is published in Pegasus, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Mad Poets Review and currently Art Through The Eyes Of Mad Poets. Today’s presentation she thanks her husband Joseph accompanying her words as an on going performing collaboration, Rhyme Rhythm and Reason.
Brooke Palma grew up in Philadelphia and currently lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Many of her poems focus on the connections between culture and identity and finding beauty in the everyday. Her work has been published in The Mad Poets’ Review, Moonstone Arts, Toho Journal, and E-Verse Radio (online), and work is forthcoming in Unbearables: A Global Anthology (to be released on November 2, 2020). Her chapbook, Conversations Unfinished, was published by Moonstone Press in August 2019. She hosts the Livin’ on Luck Poetry Series at Barnaby’s West Chester. For more information, please visit www.brookepalma.com.