Chapter and Verse: Mary Phillips, Adam Stone, and Al Gundy

A Very Special Evening of Poetry in Performance

Featuring:

MAYA PHILLIPS is currently the curator of the Emerson College Poetry Project. She represented Emerson at CUPSI as a member of the college’s 2010 and 2011 slam teams. She competed for the Cantab Lounge at the National Poetry Slam in Cambridge and in Boston as a member of the 2011 Cantab slam team. Maya is an Emerson College student. Her in-progress thesis is a book of poems about mythology with a focus on the genre’s portrayal of women.

ADAM STONE has been on nine consecutive national slam teams representing Cape Cod, The Boston Cantab, The Boston Lizard Lounge, and the People’s Republic of Vermont. He also served as Cape Cod’s Spoken Word Poet Laureate from 2000 – 2007, and has represented The Boston Lizard Lounge at the Individual World Poetry Slam in 2005 and 2007. His book is titled, I Think Our Song Is on Repeat: (S)Elected Poems 1998 – 2007, and his most recent chapbook is Radioactive Sidekick.

AL GUNDY is a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts where he co-wrote his first novel in second grade. Since then he has written several historical novels and created award-winning computer games. At the age of nine he fell in love with rhyming poetry, and today, Al performs his narrative verse regularly at the Cantab Lounge as well as other venues in and around Boston. Al is the author of the long-running web comic, “Elo and Anson,” which can be seen at www.eloandanson.com.

We thank Jonathan Clark of the Forest Hills Educational Trust for curating this program.

COME JOIN US FOR POETRY, FICTION, and REFRESHMENTS (of course!)

Chapter and Verse takes place in the historic Loring-Greenough House at 12 South Street in Jamaica Plain Centre, just across from the Monument.

Suggested donation $5.00 or whatever you can afford. (We mean this. We would rather have you than your money.) Free refreshments are served.

Parking Information: The Loring-Greenough House has a parking lot, but  several spaces are reserved for ZIP Cars. Please respect these spaces, and also please try not to park on the grass. There is ample unrestricted street parking and a large, free public parking lot off Centre Street, between Burroughs and Thomas Streets, just a block from the Loring-Greenough House.

There is also a parking lot off the right side of Burroughs Street, behind the stores on Centre Street.

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