Poet’s Blog | Steve Pollack

Poet’s Blog | Steve Pollack

Nashirah, the Jewish Chorale of Greater Philadelphia Presents – Love in every language. Come, treat yourself to beautiful songs of love from around the world. This concert, is the joyous collaboration between two guest choirs from New York, Nashira and a string...
Poet’s Blog | Cathy Cohen

Poet’s Blog | Cathy Cohen

Hi, it’s an honor to join the MCPL community and follow so many talented PLs from the past 20 years. I come from a background in community arts, teaching and painting. My hope is to build cross-pollination and opportunities to workshop, share and connect with artists...

2019 Poet Laureate – Cathleen Cohen

Poet Laureate 2019 Cathleen Cohen Cathleen Cohen founded ArtWell’s We the Poets program in Philadelphia (www.theartwell.org). Her poems have appeared in Apiary, Baltimore Review, Cagibi, Chrysalis Journal, East Coast Ink, Philadelphia Stories and other journals. In...

2013 Poet Laureate – Glenn McLaughlin

Poet Laureate 2013 Glenn McLaughlin studied chemistry, education, running and dishwashing, but not writing or poetry, at Bucknell University. After nearly thirty years of laboring in the chemical and plastics industries, he was fortunate to lose his job and begin a...

2012 Poet Laureate – Liz Chang

Poet Laureate 2012   LIZ CHANG Liz Chang was selected as the 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate by Kathleen Sheeder Bonnano. Chang recently published her second book of original poems and literary translations with Book&Arts Press, What Ordinary Objects....