Wild Mischief: Volume 3

Come hang out in Fitler Square and hear some more badass poets & writers for the third installation of Wild Mischief: A Reading Series & Literary Gathering! Bring a blanket, food to share, and something to read if you'd like. Tattooed Mom's (our usual rain location) is booked for the night, so OCF Coffee House (1745 South Street) has kindly offered up their space as an alternate location if it rains. CYREE JARELLE JOHNSON Cyree Jarelle Johnson is a Black non-binary essayist and poet living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Their writing considers disability as a cyborg femme reality, femininity as resistance and rebellion, and Black pessimism. They are a founding member of A Collective Apparition, a Black queer and trans interdisciplinary arts collective. STANTON HANCOCK Stanton Hancock is a writer, musician, and educator from Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and his poems can be found scribbled on scraps of paper, spray-painted under bridges, and in the anthology Everyday Escape Poems from SwanDive Publishing. Stanton has recently completed his first full-length poetry collection and is currently seeking a publisher for the manuscript. CLARA FANG Clara Fang was born in Shanghai, China and immigrated to the United States when she was 9 years old. Her poems have been published in Poet Lore, Nimrod, Terrain, The Chariton Reivew, Verse Daily, among others. She holds an MFA from University of Utah and a Master of Environmental Management from Yale. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received fellowships to Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference. She currently lives in Malvern, PA where she works as a photographer. ALINA PLESKOVA Alina Pleskova is trying to figure out how to write about sex, instead of around it. She co-edits bedfellows, a Philly-based magazine that catalogs contemporary discussions of desire/intimacy, with Jackee Sadicario (http://www.bedfellowsmagazine.com/). Recent interests include starting a podcast called Poetry Jawns with Emma Sanders, figuring out how to become Stevie Nicks, and crystals (in general). Her internet crumb-trails are faint, but generally easy to find. GALE MARTIN Gale Martin is an award-winning writer of contemporary fiction who finally plied her childhood propensity to lie into a legitimate literary pursuit during midlife. She has published three novels with Booktrope Editions, a Seattle-based small press, and sold two of them in the last year to Amazon Encore, an imprint of Amazon Publishing. She blogs about opera--the art form, not the platform--at Operatoonity.com, and reviews live performances at East Coast companies including the Metropolitan Opera, Opera Philadelphia, and Glimmerglass Festival. She can name any aria in three notes. Okay, five notes, well sung. In April she was invited to review her first Broadway show. She has a master of arts in creative writing from Wilkes University. She lives in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which serves as a rich source of inspiration for her writing.