Join us in the shop for a poetry reading with local professor Eli Goldblatt and Melody Wright, owner and principal of SAY/DO Strategies and a former Philadelphia Water Department official.
About the Books
Wissahickon Creek: Walks & Dreams by Eli Goldblatt
Wissahickon Creek. A silver line that runs through the neighbor-hoods, refreshing dog walkers, hikers, bicycle riders. In dreams of sky and tree and nature, setting words down like dappling sunlight, Eli Goldblatt finds a path through a pandemic too, an eternal present of the nature that has enchanted poets always. In lush descriptions of the place, Goldblatt lays out his project, where the words abut one another like the physical features of the landscape. “A place to stop, a place to // stop the world!”
–Elaine Terranova, award-winning author of nine poetry collections
Count by Melody Wright
With echoes of Jean Toomer's Cane and DuBois' Philadelphia Negro, these 'elegies for the partly living' bear daily witness to what's lost and left through the violent math of the city. Both front page and obituary section, Count stares through the numbers in the news in search of fresh and forgotten equations of joy.
–Yolanda Wisher, Philadelphia Poet Laureate 2016-17