by admin | Apr 25, 2020 | Feature
Home is more than four walls and a roof for David Gaines. When Gaines won this year’s 21st annual Montgomery County Poet Laureate competition he knew it was something big – a validation of his voice, his work and his aspiration to serve others. The 24-year-old...
by admin | Mar 28, 2020 | 2020, Feature, Poet Laureate
Poet Laureate 2020 David Gaines David Gaines is a writer, actor and educator born and raised in uptown Philadelphia. As a product of a traditional baptist household and a child of hip-hop culture, Dave uses his poetry to analyze and unpack how the performance of...
by admin | Jan 29, 2020 | 2020, Feature
This fall it was a delight to spend time with Chad Frame, MCPL’s 2017 poet laureate, on a ride to Northern Virginia Community College to share poetry with poet laureates from other counties and states at a biennial program In the Company of Laureates. Chad gave an...
by admin | Nov 15, 2019 | Feature
Cathleen “Cathy” Cohen has had a very good year. As the 2019 Montgomery County Poet Laureate the long-time educator, painter and poet said winning the highly regarded contest, now in its 20th year, had opened doors. “My community was Philadelphia, even though I live...
by admin | Oct 21, 2019 | Feature
Among 2019 Caesura Festival’s roster of musicians and poets, multi-talented Yolanda Wisher was poet-in-residence. Yolanda was Montgomery County’s first poet laureate (1999) and Philadelphia’s 2016-17 poet laureate. Throughout her career Yolanda has focused on...
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