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 #6 performances here.
Group #6 Bios
Alison Hicks is author of poetry collections You Who Took the Boat Out and Kiss, a chapbook Falling Dreams, a novella Love: A Story of Images, and co-editor of an anthology, Prompted.. Her work has appeared in Eclipse, Gargoyle, Permafrost, Poet Lore, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Green Hills Literary Lantern. She is founder of Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio, which offers community-based writing workshops.
Melinda Rizzo loves language. A freelance reporter since 1998 and life-long poet, words hold surprise, revelation and fascination. Her first book Late Snow & Hellebore is available from Aldrich Press, a Kelsay Books imprint. Always on the hunt for a good story – in word counts or tercets – visit her website at https://melindarizzopoet.wixsite.com/mysite. Animations by Abbey Clark.
Lisa Lutwyche received her creative writing MFA from Goddard College, Vermont. Poet, author, artist, produced playwright, and actor, her work has appeared in literary magazines across the US and the UK. Her full-length poetry collection, A Difficult Animal, came out in 2016. Lisa was nominated for Pushcarts in 2000, and in 2015.
Marjorie Kanter writes, installs site specific words, leads interventions/participant performances and gives creativity writing workshops. Her short literary pieces, poem-like, sparked from real life experience, often highlight issues of in/communication. She is author of I displace the Air as I Walk, Small Talk and Field Notes/Notas de Campo (Spanish/English). To learn more, visit www.marjoriekanter.com.