Category: events
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Nancy Scott featured on Pulse (and Lehigh Valley Disability Pride)
Our editor and one of our resident poets, Nancy Scott, appeared in the online publication, Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. Here’s the link to her piece, “My Castle”, which discusses not only her experience as the first congenitally blind person at her independent living facility, but also offers…
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Writing Dirty Words now available
This week has been a delightful split between two of our favorite pastimes here at Parisian Phoenix Publishing– disability advocacy and dirty words. Today (as I write this it is 6 a.m.) is the first Lehigh Valley Disability Pride, hosted by Disability Pride PA and the Lehigh Valley Arts and…
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More upcoming events: Come buy books, come have fun
July 22, 2023: Come visit at Lehigh Valley Disability Pride, where several contributors will be reading their selections from our book, Not an Able-Bodied White Man with Money. Penn State Lehigh Valley Campus, 2809 Saucon Valley Rd, Center Valley, Pa. 18034. It’s a short day, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.…
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A tale about landing a spot at Disability Pride
July 22, 2023: Lehigh Valley Disability Pride— in May, my optimistic self looked into buying a vendor space at Lehigh Valley Disability Pride at Penn State Lehigh Valley Campus, 2809 Saucon Valley Rd, Center Valley, Pa. 18034. It’s a short day, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. But the prices were…
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What We Did With Our Weekend
Shop N Stroll with Your Pup and Delaware River Fest with Slate Belt Rising and Blue Flame events Yesterday, Parisian Phoenix Publishing and Echo City Capers (and even William Prystauk, author of the Kink Noir series) attended the Third Annual Shop N Stroll with Your Pup at Wind Gap Park.…
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Tomorrow there will be dogs
July 8, 2023: Shop n Stroll, a vendor fair at Wind Gap Park, supporting Slate Belt Rising. The event encourages attendees to bring their well-behaved dog. And since I hail from the Slate Belt (Bangor Slaters 1993) and our own Thurston Gill does pet first aid with Worldwide Academy Training…
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Launching Summer Reading
On June 14, starting at 11 a.m., Ralph and Joe and I will be at the Mary Meuser Memorial Library Summer Reading Kick Off “Wheels Around Wilson” at Meuser Park, 2240 Northampton Street, Easton, Pa., 18042. The free event will feature vehicles from the borough’s emergency departments and public works…
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Echo City Capers at the Moravian Historical Society Arts & Crafts Fair in Nazareth, Pa.
“Hustling” has entered the vernacular powerfully as people, faced with a pandemic and a gig economy, have turned to “side hustles” to augment their income. For artists– from authors to painters to musicians– the reality of “hustling” to pursue dreams is more than a supplement to bolster financial gains or…
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Like peanut butter and chocolate… Better together
Publisher’s Note: When I was in the midst of our National Independent Bookstore Day programming at Book and Puppet, a woman approached me and very professionally and briefly introduced herself as a local editor with whom I had connected on Instagram. Now, before I tell you the rest of my…
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Poetry is Stupid; Change My Mind
Today, at the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, Darrell Parry delivered a presentation at the organization’s morning meeting called, “Poetry is Stupid. Change My Mind.” He followed that with an afternoon workshop of what he described as 12 enthusiastic writers participating in various exercises relate to the crafting of poetry…
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