This event will feature readings by:

Nathalie Anderson
Charles Carr

Open mic to follow. Hosted by Sibelan Forrester

Community Arts Center
414 Plush Mill Road
Wallingford PA 19086

Nathalie Anderson’s books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, Rough, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound. Her poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, Nimrod, Plume, and elsewhere; and she collaborated in 2021 with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America. Anderson has authored libretti for five operas in collaboration with Philadelphia composer Thomas Whitman. She has recently retired from Swarthmore College, where she served as a Professor of English Literature, and directed the Program in Creative Writing.

Charles Carr has three published books of poems, /paradise, pennsylvania/, /Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems/, and /Eat This Poem/. He has been active in the local poetry community for 20 years: he hosted a Moonstone Arts Center Poetry series at Fergie's Pub for 5 years and is currently the host of a live monthly broadcast, Philly Loves Poetry, now in its eighth season. Charles's chapbook, /Eat This Poem/, was released in January 2024. Proceeds from the sales of /Eat This Poem/ will go to The Ukraine TrustChain. Charles's poems have been published in the Wallace Stevens Journal, Partisan Review, Blue Collar Review, Philadelphia Stories, Painted Bride Quarterly, Apiary, Mad Poets Review, North of Oxford, and Med-Mic. In 2014 Charles read his poems at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, Ireland, as part of the 100,000 Poets for Peace. He is married to the award-winning artist Karen Stabenow.

Charles Carr - bio coming soon!