Category: The Friday Collapse

The Friday Collapse virtual monthly reading for July will feature poets Cord Moreski, Chad Frame, and Cleveland Wall on July 30, 6:30 PST and 9:30 EST. We have an event page on Facebook, Collapse Press. This is a virtual event hosted on the zoom platform with a livestream on Facebook. Hosted by E. Lynn Alexander and Paul Corman Roberts, Collapse Press. Cord Moreski is a poet from the Jersey Shore. Moreski is the author of The News Around Town (Maverick Duck Press, 2020), Shaking Hands with Time (Indigent Press, 2018 ), and Stay Afloat Inside (Indigent Press, 2016).  His work has been featured in As It Ought To Be Magazine, Eunoia Magazine, In Between Hangovers, Indigent A La Carte, Philosophical Idiot, Rusty Truck Press, Rye Whiskey Review, The Piker Press, and Silver Birch Press. When he is not writing, Cord waits tables and teaches middle school children that poetry is awesome. Cleveland Wall is a poet, performer, and teaching artist in Bethlehem, PA. She was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cleveland performs with interactive poetry group No River Twice and with poetry/guitar duo The Starry Eyes. Current obsessions include dream life, embodied poetics, ephemeral art, and the power of persistent, incremental change. For more info on The Starry Eyes’ album “The Garden of Terrors and Delights” or on Cleveland’s book, Let X=X, drop by clevelandwall.com. Chad Frame’s work appears in Rattle, Pedestal, Rust+Moth, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere, as well as on iTunes from the Library of Congress. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry improv/performance troupe, and founder/director of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His collection, Little Black Book, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

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