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CAConrad Spearheading Philadelphia Poetry Hotel

By Harriet Staff

He’s on quite the roll, CAConrad. On the heels of his great new book, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, comes this new and great endeavor, The Philadelphia Poetry Hotel.

From the blog:

Due to escalating rents making it impossible for poor and working class poets to move to the city and write, CAConrad will open the Philadelphia Poetry Hotel. The idea is to acquire several buildings in the downtown area and provide affordable apartments for poets with low incomes.

There will also be rooms available for visiting poets, as well as performance reading space, and basement printing presses for all local poets to use. HEY, we may even open up the Philadelphia Poetry Hotel Laundromat next door with an Emily Dickinson spin cycle! This landmark project will help make Philadelphia a community of artists once again, allowing art to flourish despite economic barriers.

To help fund this project in 2013, please contact CAConrad at 267.581.4229, or e-mail him at CAConrad13@AOL.com

Please do help if you can.

Tags: CAConrad
Posted in Poetry News on Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 by Harriet Staff.