PWC Free Forum

Joining with the the Philadelphia Writers' Conference and Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program (MCPL), PWC Free Forums will be held at the Musehouse on the first Thursday of every month, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM.

Leonard Gontarek is the author of St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris, Van Morrison Can’t Find His Feet, Zen For Beginners and Déjà Vu Diner. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Field, Poet Lore, Verse, Hanging Loose, Poetry Northwest and in the anthologies, The Best American Poetry, The Working Poet and Joyful Noise: American Spiritual Poetry. He coordinates the Green Line Café reading and interview series and hosts The Monday Night Poets series at The Philadelphia Central Library. Since 2002, he has organized readings for Peace / Works. He conducts poetry workshops at the Moonstone Art Center, the Kelly Writers House and Musehouse. He has received poetry fellowships twice from the Pennsylvania Council On The Arts and five Pushcart Prize nominations. He has been a cabdriver, movie projectionist, bookstore owner and teacher.

Max Gontarek is a creative writing major in his junior year at the Philadelphia Creative and Performing Arts High School. He is a copy editor and writer for his school's literary and art magazine, United Writers and Artists. He was a semifinalist in the Philadelphia Young Playwrights monologue competition. He plays guitar, bass and piano for the bands Handsome Virgil, Vegan Soul Food and Drummer Hoff. And he's been writing poetry since he was 7 years old.

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