Mad Poets Festival Group #7 Videos (N. Lutwyche, Marion Deutsche Cohen, and A. Konopka, F. Sholevar, and B.P. Brown)

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 #7 performances here.

Group #7 Bios

Autumn Konopka is a the current President of the Philadelphia Writers' Conference and a former poet laureate of Montgomery County.

Nick Lutwyche spent twenty-five years in the Royal Navy. An actor in community theatre since his teens, an aerospace engineer, and a published poet in the UK and in the US for over twenty-five years, his work appears in Mad Poets Review, Fuze, Tamafyr Review, Falklands War Poetry, and many others.

Marion Deutsche Cohen' s 32nd book is "Not Erma Bombeck: Diary of a Feminist 70s Mother" (Alien Buddha Press). She is also the author of memoirs about late pregnancy loss, and spousal chronic illness. Her poetry book, Crossing the Equal Sign (Plain View Press), is about the experience of and her passion for math.

Fereshteh Sholevar, the Iranian -American writer immigrated to Germany and later to USA in 1978. She got her Master’s degree in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa and Rosemont College, Pa. She writes in four language. She has won several awards. Her new bilingual poetry book, Of Dust And Chocolate, (English-French) is available at Amazon.

Beth Phillips Brown carries her Welsh ancestors’ oral traditions through two languages, English and Welsh. She aspires to the calling of cyfarwydd translated as bard and tradition-bearer. She was a co-founder of the Delaware County Poets’ Cooperative, which became Mad Poets Society. She now lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California.