Join us in the Steinbright for poetry, drinks, and lively conversation in celebration of the communal act of poetry. Hosted and facilitated by Chester County-based poet Vincent Tavani, our guest poets will share their own and others' work and discuss how this art form uses language to shape emotion. A ticket includes one free drink and time to talk with the poets afterwards.
MEET THE ARTISTS
Hosted by: Vincent Tavani
VINCENT TAVANI is Phoenixville's wandering poet, where he sets up with a typewriter and writes poems on the spot for people. Returning to his hometown after years of travel, educational work, and adventurous labor, he works to give people words that transform life. Heartwood Ecopoetry and Performance, a public reading series with its own modern commedia dell'arte troupe, lets story and poetry connect people to place and nature. Phoenixville Poetry Nights is a conversational reading series to share the poems we love. He is on Instagram @poetvincent and can be commissioned for special poems and events at vincenttavani@gmail.com.
George Reitnour
GEORGE REITNOUR of northern Chester County started writing and studying poetry in 1975. He participated in West Chester University Poetry Conferences, and loves anthroposophical speech and eurythmy. He's a lawyer, and is married to Melissa, an audiologist. Both of them are retired with grown children, are active in Royersford Baptist Church and Odd Fellows, and together host a monthly poetry book club (email reitnour@reitnour.com to participate live or via Zoom).
Katie Schmid
KATIE SCHMID is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow in Poetry and a Writing Freedom Fellow, a new fellowship sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and Haymarket Books celebrating the work of writers who have been impacted by incarceration. Her book, Nowhere, was released from the University of New Mexico Press.
Sanam Sheriff
SANAM SHERIFF is a queer poet, artist, and educator from Bangalore, India. They have received support from the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Kundiman, The Watering Hole, The Seventh Wave, and are a Pushcart Prize Nominee. Sanam’s work has been published in Indiana Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Academy of American Poets, The Adroit Journal, Washington Square Review, The Offing, Outlook India, and elsewhere. Sanam holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. They currently serve as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College where they organize the Reading Series. Sanam is working, with much love, on their debut poetry collection.
