An interview with David Gaines | by Melinda Rizzo

An interview with David Gaines | by Melinda Rizzo

by | 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...
2020 Poet Laureate – David Gaines

2020 Poet Laureate – David Gaines

by | 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...
2021 Celebrity Judge – Ernest Hilbert

2021 Celebrity Judge – Ernest Hilbert

by | Oct 19, 2020 | 2021, Feature, Judges

Ernest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, and Caligulan, which was selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize. His fourth collection, Last One Out, appeared in March 2019. He lives in Philadelphia where he works as a rare book...
Why Poets Write | by Melinda Rizzo

Why Poets Write | by Melinda Rizzo

by | Aug 29, 2020 | Feature

Why Poets Write: An interview with Ona Gritz and Dan Simpson It’s tempting to write about the big things. Throughout time poets have been reliable historians – think The Epic of Gilgamesh from about 2100 BCE – it’s among the oldest surviving great literary...