We are pleased to announce the second edition of the Fox Chase Review is now live and on line at Fox Chase Review . This edition contains the work of the featured poets for 2009 at the Mad Poets Society Fox Chase Reading Series held at 3 Sisters Corner Café in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia.
Featured in this edition are:
Mike Cohen, Thomas Devaney, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, J.C. Todd,
Justin Vitiello, Ellen Peckham, Chad Parenteau, Ray Greenblatt,
Amy King, Amy Ouzoonian, Vincent Quatroche, Timothy Gager,
Frank Sherlock, CA Conrad, Louis McKee, Beth Phillips Brown
Mel Brake, and Adam Meora
We hope you enjoy the work of these poets and explore the literary links and our 2009
schedule for the MPS Fox Chase Reading Series at Fox Chase Review .

www.foxchasereview.org

MPS Fox Chase Reading Series
Saturday, Sept. 27th @2pm
Poets
MacGregor Rucker
Autumn Konopka
3 Sister Corner Café
7950 Oxford Ave.
(corner of Barnes and Loney)
Philadelphia, Pa. 19111
www.foxchasereview.org
www.madpoetssociety.com

Autumn Konopka is the Mad Poets web czar and host of the monthly poetry series at Milk Boys in Bryn Mawr. Autumn’s poems have been published, or are forthcoming, in Crab Orchard Review, Mad Poets Review, Up & Under: The QND Review, Re)Verb, Ekphrasis, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Hinge Online, among others. Her manuscript, What the Postwoman Left, was a semifinalist in the 2007 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition. You can learn more about Autumn on her personal website and her personal blog

MacGregor Rucker was born at the dawn of the Great Society and prays to this day that he didn't turn out to be as big a disappointment. He came of age somewhere in between Woodstock and Punk Rock, shortly after Lou Reed had descended from the mountains of Upstate New York, having just invented poetry, performance art, rap music, Delmore Schwartz and leather trousers. He is a survivor of Watergate, Bellbottom Pants, Disco, Reagonomics, Neo-Conservativism, The War on Drugs, Brit-Pop, Giuliani-Time, The War on Terror, Skinny Jeans, and the NYC Smoking Ban and lives in Brooklyn with two knuckleheads that look suspiciously like smaller version of him and claim paternity. You can read his blog at http://glossophagia.blogspot.com/

MPS Fox Chase Reading Series
Saturday, July 26 @2pm
Poets
Glenn McLaughlin
Arlene Bernstein
3 Sister Corner Café
7950 Oxford Ave.
(corner of Barnes and Loney)
Philadelphia, Pa. 19111
www.foxchasereview.org
www.madpoetssociety.com
Admission: free

Bios:

In 2004, Arlene Bernstein created Friends of Poetry as a vehicle for performing her poetry and to highlight local poets and musicians, which she does regularly throughout the Main Line/Philadelphia/Media area in coffee shops, libraries, book stores, and private salons. She is a member of Mad Poets Society, New Philadelphia Poets, Freshmeadow Poets of Flushing, NY, and the Bonnie Baillis Havertown Poetry Circle. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize (for a poem and an essay), she has also won contests locally and been published in many local and far-flung journals. She also writes fiction.

Glenn McLaughlin is a former plastics sales representative and a soon-to-be-former COO of a bio-medical start-up company. While he started reading and writing at age appropriate times in his life those activities did not include poetry until he was well into his fifth decade (not required for his chemistry degree). In the decade since, he has been published in several regional and online journals, published a volume of poems ("Something Catches," Roland Street, 2006) and has been invited to read at the Philadelphia Library plus numerous venues throughout the mid-Atlantic area. He conceived of and hosts the poetry series "Otherwise - Poetry at Churchill" in Pottstown, PA where he resides with his wife and their numerous pets, his children having
reached the point of self-sufficiency and flown the coop though still easily able to show up for dinner.

The Mad Poets Society Fox Chase Reading Series will feature poets Vincent Quatroche and Alla Vilnyanskaya on Saturday June 28th at The Three Sisters Corner Café located at Barnes and Loney Streets in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia. The reading begins at 2pm.

Vincent Quatroche is a poet and professor from Fredonia State University in New York. He has recorded several cd’s to include “In Dreamthink” and “Matador From Another Planet”. Quatroche has published several volumes of prose and poetry most recently “Cyberstein”. His website is www.rubbereden.com

Alla Vilnyanskaya was born in the Ukraine and moved to the U.S. when she was 8 years old. She has been writing poetry since the age of sixteen. Vilnyanskaya is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a B.A. in Communications and writing with a poetry track. Her work has been published in online journals such as Flutter, Aurora Review, Lost Beat Poetry and the Fox Chase Review.

Please visit the Fox Chase Review at www.foxchasereview.org to read the works of Quatroche and Vilnyanskaya.

WE HAVE FINALLY OPENED!!! Perk -n- Pour House, A Gourmet Coffee and Corner Cafe. We are located off Oxford Avenue on the corner of Barnes & Loney Streets, across from the Fox Chase line. We are hoping to create the perfect internet coffee house for our community. Offering all your favorite Coffee drinks, including Cappuccino's, Latte's and Mocha's as well as fresh baked pastries, homemade lunches and incredible desserts. Opening at 7 AM weekdays and 8 AM on Saturday. We are locally owned and operated. Our goal is to provide our community with good food, GREAT coffee and outstanding service.

Perk -n- Pour House is a new idea for Fox Chase and are always interested in hearing your thoughts and ideas we could offer.

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