ONE ART x Keystone Poetry
Date: Sunday, November 2
Time: 2:00pm Eastern
Please Note: This is a virtual event held via Zoom.
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About The Reading
During this virtual event (held via Zoom), Featured Readers will share their poem selected for publication in Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (PSU Press). Time permitting, we hope to take a few questions after readers share their poems.
Hosts:
Marjorie Maddox & Jerry Wemple, Co-Editors, Keystone Poetry
Mark Danowsky, Founder/Editor-in-Chief, ONE ART
Featured Readers:
Joseph Chelius is the author of three full-length poetry collections. His most recent collection, Playing Fields, was published earlier this year by Kelsay Books.
Grant Clauser is a Pennsylvanian. His sixth book, Temporary Shelters, was just published by Cornerstone Press. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Greensboro Review, Kenyon Review and other journals. He’s an editor for a large media company and teaches poetry workshops.
Geraldine Connolly grew up in Westmoreland County and has published five poetry collections. She’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland Arts Council and Breadloaf Writers Conference. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review and Poetry Ireland Review. Her new book is Instructions at Sunset, from Terrapin Books in September 2025. She lives in Alameda, California.
Brian Fanelli is the author of the poetry collections Waiting for the Dead to Speak (NYQ Books) and All That Remains (Unbound Content). His writing has been published in the LA Times, World Literature Today, Midnight Oil, Pedestal, Paterson Literary Review, and elsewhere. Brian also writes frequently about horror movies and is a contributing writer to HorrorBuzz.com and 1428Elm.com. He has his M.F.A. from Wilkes University and his Ph.D. from SUNY Binghamton University. Currently, he’s an Associate Professor of English at Lackawanna College.
Jan Freeman is the author of three books of poetry and the founder and former director of Paris Press (1995–2018), which is now an imprint of Wesleyan University Press. She is the recipient of two MacDowell Fellowships, the Spiral Shell Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts/Moulin a Nef, and an Associateship at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. More at www.janfreeman.net
Robbie Gamble (he/him) is the author of the chapbook A Can of Pinto Beans (Lily Poetry Review Press, 2022). His poems have appeared in ONE ART, Pangyrus, Post Road, Salamander, and The Sun. He is the poetry editor at Solstice Literary Magazine, and he divides his time between Boston and Vermont.
Lynn Levin is a poet and writer. Called one of the most “poignantly witty voices of our time” (Bucks County Community College), she is the author of nine books, most recently the short story collection House Parties (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023), named one of the best books of summer by Philadelphia Magazine. “Sleepless Johnston,” her ballad that appears in Keystone Poetry, is from her poetry collection The Minor Virtues (Ragged Sky, 2020). Lynn Levin teaches at Drexel University and for many years taught creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Her website is: lynnlevinpoet.com.
Professor of English at the Lock Haven campus of Commonwealth University, Marjorie Maddox has published 16 collections of poetry—including Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (Yellowglen Prize); Begin with a Question (International Book and Illumination Book Award Winners); and the Shanti Arts ekphrastic collaborations Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For (with photographer Karen Elias) and In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind, a collaboration with her artist daughter, Anna Lee Hafer (www.hafer.work) and others. How Can I Look It Up When I Don’t Know How It’s Spelled? Spelling Mnemonics and Grammar Tricks (Kelsay) and Seeing Things (Wildhouse) will be available in 2024. In addition, she has published the story collection What She Was Saying (Fomite) and 4 children’s and YA books. With Jerry Wemple, she is co-editor of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and the forthcoming Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (PSU Press) and is assistant editor of Presence. She hosts Poetry Moment at WPSU. See marjoriemaddox.com
Amy Small-McKinney is a Montgomery County PA Poet Laureate Emeritus. She is the author of six poetry books, including three full-length books and three chapbooks. & You Think It Ends (Glass Lyre Press), her newest full-length book, was released in March 2025. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, Pedestal Magazine, Tahoma Review and Verse Daily, among others. She has contributed to many anthologies, for example, Rumors, Secrets, & Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion, & Choice (Anhinga Press, 2022) and 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium (Ashland Poetry Press). Her poems have also been translated into Korean and Romanian.
Ann E. Michael lives in eastern Pennsylvania. Her latest poetry collection is Abundance/Diminishment. Her book The Red Queen Hypothesis won the 2022 Prairie State Poetry Prize; she’s the author of Water-Rites (2012) and six chapbooks. She is a hospice volunteer, writing tutor, and chronicler of her own backyard who maintains a long-running blog at https://annemichael.blog/
Jerry Wemple has published four poetry collections. His most recent is We Always Wondered What Became of You from Broadstone Books. The collection of mostly prose poems centers on his secret transracial adoption within his biological family, growing up as a biracial child in rural Pennsylvania during an era when people of color were almost nonexistent there, and discovering the identity of his birth father as an adult. He is co-editor of the anthology Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, and the follow-up Keystone Poetry. He also co-edited the anthology Rivers, Ridges, and Valleys: Essays on Rural Pennsylvania. His poetry and creative nonfiction work appear in numerous journals and anthologies, and have been published internationally in Ireland, Chile, and Sweden. He teaches in the Creative Writing program at Commonwealth University in Pennsylvania.
