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...
An interview with Chad Frame | Cathy Cohen

An interview with Chad Frame | Cathy Cohen

by | Jan 29, 2020 | 2020, Feature

This fall it was a delight to spend time with Chad Frame, MCPL’s 2017 poet laureate, on a ride to Northern Virginia Community College to share poetry with poet laureates from other counties and states at a biennial program In the Company of Laureates.   Chad gave an...

2019 Poet Laureate – Cathleen Cohen

by | Apr 9, 2019 | 2019, Poet Laureate

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

by | Mar 10, 2019 | 2013, Poet Laureate

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

by | Mar 10, 2019 | 2012, Poet Laureate

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....

2011 Poet Laureate – Amy Small-McKinney

by | Mar 10, 2019 | 2011, Poet Laureate

Poet Laureate 2011   Amy Small-McKinney  Amy Small-McKinney is the author of a new collection of poems,Life is Perfect (BookArts Press), and two chapbooks of poetry, Body of Surrender (2004) and Clear Moon, Frost (2009), both with Finishing Line Press. She was...