In celebration of Black History Month, Poets & Prophets Presents:

Elijah B. Pringle, III is the former on-air host of Panoramic Poetry at October Gallery.com He is the author of At the Cornerstone, Feeding the Sparrow, and Second Saturday at Serenity. His work has been in Edison Poetry Review, Fox Chase Review, The God’s Must Be Bored, and will have a Feature is The River Poets Journal.

Elijah B. Pringle, III has read at Bread and Cup, Cornerstone Coffeehouse, Gloria’s Cafe, Jose Sebourne Gallery, The Painted Bride Arts Center, and Vibes and Verses. He has been on broadcast and internet radio; Blog Radio with Lynn Blue, Po-Edify with Nia Ebo, and WRTI-FM, among others.

Elijah B. Pringle, III has a quarter of a century in the Banking and Insurance Industries, mostly in training. He estimates he has been responsible for the training and development of over 3000 associates and supervisors. He is past Editor-in-Chief of Impact, a business journal and has facilitated numerous writing workshops, both business and creative.

He has been quoted in print in Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Philadelphia Daily News, etc. He currently resides in Philadelphia.

An open reading follows the Feature Reading and donations are accepted.

Charles S. Carr is the author of Paradise, Pennsylvania (Cradle Press), which will be on sale this evening. Charles S. Carr has presented Readings at Green Line Café, The Mad Poets Festival, The Philadelphia Free Library and the University City Arts League. His work has been published in the Mad Poets Review, among others. His work reflects the “destruction of Nature and The tragedy that is Haiti.” All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Fonkaze, USA. Fonkaze, USA provides banking for the poor of Haiti and Microfinancing for the women in rural Haiti.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 7pm – POETRY
Poets & Prophets Presents
BOB SMALL

Bob Small will debut his newest Poetry Chapbook, Swarthmore, Nov 28th, 2008, a series of interlocking Poems about Thanksgiving Eve of that year, with illustrations by both local and New York City Artists, etc.

Bob Small has presented Feature Readings at the following Philadelphia locations; Bacchanal, Barnes & Noble, Borders, The Clark Park Festivals, Highwire Gallery, The Middle East Restaurant, Nexus Gallery, The Philadelphia Ethical Society, The Painted Bride Arts Center, Robin’s Bookstore, and The University of Pennsylvania, among many.

He has read in Pennsylvania, including The Booksource (Swarthmore) GodFreydaniels (Bethlehem), Harvest Bookstore (Media), The Jumping Cow (Swarthmore) and The Mad Poets Food Festival Readings (Media). He has also read in New Jersey, New York City, Washington, DC.

He is the author of many multi-Poem Broadsides, The Thanksgiving 11-27-08 Series being the most recent (now collected in a Chapbook). His previous chapbooks include El Otro Lado (with Maralyn Lois Polak), On Watching America Die, Small Steps and Toes (with Lamont B. Steptoe), and The Unapoet.

He has been published in The Bucks County Writer, Dot Dot Dot, Heat Magazine, Philadelphia Poets Magazine, among many. He is a Founder and President of Poets and Prophets,(www.poetsandprophets.com) a 26-year old Poetry Organization which presents Poetry Readings in Delco and Philadelphia. He currently lives in a semi-retired state in Swarthmore, Pa., with his wife and their canine and feline significants.

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