It's May! You know what that means: primary season, mom celebrations, graduations, and, as ever, poetry! You're not going to want to miss this month's Wild Indigo, featuring Joel Dias-Porter (aka DJ Renegade) and Olga Livshin! And for the third time, we'll be offering ASL interpretation. Please spread the word!
Sunday, May 17, 5-7 pm
Young American Hard Cider & Tasting Room
6350 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia
$5 donation - more if you can!
Get your tickets in advance here: https://bit.ly/25wildindigo26
Poets will have books for sale.
The venue is wheelchair accessible and the event is mask friendly. Bring your poem for the open mic! (It's best to arrive a few minutes early to sign up - this is a popular mic and spaces are limited!)
Co-sponsored by the progressive organization Reclaim Philadelphia, who will be sharing out about this important election season, and by our fabulous venue, Young American Hard Cider. With support from the Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund for People & Animals.
Featured poets:
Joel Dias-Porter (aka DJ Renegade) is originally from Pittsburgh, PA & resides in South Jersey. The 1998 & 1999 Haiku Slam Champion, his poems have been published in POETRY, Mead, Best American Poetry 2014, Callaloo, Asahi Shimbun, Ploughshares, the New York Times, & the anthologies, Short Fuse, Role Call, Def Poetry Jam, 360 Degrees of Black Poetry, Slam (The Book), Poetry Nation, Beyond the Frontier, and Catch a Fire. A Cave Canem Fellow, in 1995 he received the Furious Flower "Emerging Poet Award.” His collection “Ideas of Improvisation” is on Thread Makes Blanket Press (Jun 2022).
Olga Livshin’s poetry recently appears in Poetry, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. She is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (2019) and co-translator of Lyudmyla Khersonska's Today Is a Different War (2023). In the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Livshin co-organized “Voices for Ukraine,” an online reading of Ukrainian poets and their translators, attended by over 800 people. Livshin's poetry in support of Ukraine has been read at fundraising events in St. Louis, Miami, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. Philadelphia is also home.