umüvme features JERICHO BROWN. Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and a BA from Dillard University. The recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown teaches creative writing as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego.  His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review, Oxford American, and several other journals and anthologies.  His first book, PLEASE (New Issues), won the 2009 American Book Award.

goody-two-shoes troubadour

meets crochet-hat hipster

& umüvme is born...

poetry for people

not books.

umüvme is your fork in the rocky road of poetry.  indulge your inner connoisseur of words . . .

umüvme features HANOCH GUY.  Hanoch spent his childhood and youth in Israel surrounded by orchards.  He is a bilingual poet in Hebrew and English.  He teaches Hebrew literature at Temple University.  Hanoch's work has been published in Genre, Poetry Newsletter, Tracks, The International Journal of Genocide Studies, and several times in Poetica, where he won an award.  Three of his bilingual poems were published in Other words.  He was poet of the week on March 7th on Poetry Super Highway.

MR. HOLLISTER returns to umüvme to promote Syn, his recently released collection of erotic poetry from My Time Publications and Episode XII Publishing. The collection challenges readers to submit to their desires as they go travel on a poetic journey through the eyes and mind of one man's passion to please the woman he loves. Syn mixes both the sexual and spiritual aspects of relationships and life, detailing the various ways to satisfy the carnal flesh and pay homage to the beautiful temple known as Woman. Mr. Hollister showcases his great talent for story-telling through dramatic wordplay, rhymes, and an insatiable hunger to explore the innermost regions of Woman's body, bringing forth a collection of sensual and seductive poetry that he promises will leave readers not only satisfied but awe-struck and turning every page to see what happens next.  Warning:  Mature lyrical content. This show is not for the unsexy or faint of heart.

4th annual germantownpoetryfestival

umüvme features BETH PHILLIPS BROWN.  A poet and storyteller, Brown carries her Welsh and Celtic ancestors’ oral traditions through two languages, English and Welsh.  A fluent Welsh speaker, a teaching artist and a 2002 PCA Folk Arts Performing Traditions fellowship recipient, she aspires to the calling of cyfarwydd, the Welsh word for bard and tradition-bearer.  Her most recent chapbook, Book of Enchantments, was published by Foothills Publishing in Summer 2007.   As Guest Poet for the 2006 Authors & Artists of the Sea session of Whale Camp on Grand Manaan Island, she edited Small as a World, Large as Alone, available on the Whale Camp website as a PDF download.  Other publications include Poiesis,  It Has Come To This:  Poets of the Great Mother Conference, Block Island Poetry Project website, Philadelphia Poets, Blue Sofa Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal and the Painted Bride Quarterly among others.  She is a founding member of The Delco Poets’ Cooperative, the first poetry organization in Delaware County which evolved into the present Mad Poets’ Society.  In addition to her poetry and storytelling work, she is a book artist as well as the editor and publisher of Gwasg Cwtsh y Bardd (The Bard’s Cupboard Press).  Beth is an avid TriYoga practitioner, recently becoming certified as a Basics teacher and is currently studying for further certification. 

And we'll be BLASTIN (WITH LOVE & AFFECTION) the upcoming Germantown Poetry Festival, taking place this Saturday, April 17th @ GFS, 2-5pm.  Be there or catch it LIVE on-air, hosted by The Rec.