Category: poetry

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  Festival Unbound and Poetry in the Rose Garden TODAY

  Every April, the world celebrates poetry— the same sort of observance reserved for Black History Month or Disability Pride or Suicide Awareness. And here we are, in October, already, and I am impressed with the volume of poetry events flooding the Lehigh Valley, six months after official National Poetry Month, perhaps an…

  4 Oct 2024
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  Fashion & Fiends and other updates at Barnes & Noble

  Tomorrow, I will be signing my books at the Bethlehem Township Barnes and Noble store in the Southmont Shopping Center from 1 to 4 p.m. It was a last-minute booking and since that store has been so supportive and features a Parisian Phoenix Publishing table on the sales floor near…

  24 Aug 2024
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  Barnes signings

  This weekend, Echo City Capers will do a double feature or mini-book tour, depending on your perspective, at two of our local Barnes & Noble stores. On Saturday, 8/17, join them at the Barnes in the Southmont Shopping Center in Bethlehem Township. On Sunday, our dynamic duo will be at the Lehigh Valley Mall, spending some time at…

  17 Aug 2024
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  McKenna Graf at Bernards Township Library

  Yesterday, poet and filmmaker McKenna Graf promoted her sophomore poetry volume, Mortals, Myths and Maybes, at her hometown public library (Bernards Township) in Basking Ridge, N.J. Decked out in a “What’s More Punk Than a Public Library?” t-shirt, McKenna read five poems from the poem and then had a fireless…

  11 Aug 2024
• events parisian phoenix author poetry

  McKenna on the Move

  Just a quick post to remind everyone that if you’d like to support McKenna Graf and her sophomore poetry collection, Mortals, Myths and Maybes, published by Parisian Phoenix Publishing in June, here are her August events: On Saturday, August 10, at approximately 12:20 p.m., McKenna will lead a talk at…

  8 Aug 2024
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  Another young poet’s dive into the Sealey Challenge

  By McKenna Graf, author of Mortals, Myths and Maybes. Special Note: McKenna will have a poetry reading at Barnes and Noble Upper East Side at 6 p.m. August 22. The store is located at 87th and Third Avenue (1550 Third Avenue) New York City. I am a reader at my…

  7 Aug 2024
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  A poetic challenge: 31 chapbooks in 31 days

  Guest Blog by Magnus Mateo This year, I’ll be participating in the Sealey Challenge for the first time. In case you’ve never heard of this challenge, it encourages people to read a poetry book of any length for each day of August. 31 days, 31 books. Seems easy enough, right?…

  3 Aug 2024
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  Mortals, Myths and Maybes releases tomorrow

  Earlier this week, I headed to the Post Office, one of the less glamorous jobs I have to do, to mail custom bookmarks and our Parisian Phoenix bookmarks to McKenna Graf who plans to stuff publicity boxes for her poetry collection Mortals, Myths and Maybes which launches TOMORROW. When people ask me about the…

  20 Jun 2024
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  Otto the Oak launch this weekend and other news

  Parisian Phoenix has the following news to announce: This weekend, in honor of Arbor Day, Echo City Capers will launch The Ballad of Otto the Oak at the Barnes & Noble in Center Valley, Pa. Author Ralph Greco Jr. and illustrator Joseph Swarctz will be on hand 11 a.m. April 27 to sign books and celebrate this story of…

  26 Apr 2024
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  April Showers bring poetry?

  This weekend launches a fun April for us. Parisian Phoenix has a little bit of everything happening, from a school visit on Thursday to the grand opening celebration of the Blue Flame Retail Store at the Palmer Park Mall in Easton, Pa., and of course, our first official event of National Poetry Month, Poet…

  2 Apr 2024