Atop An Underwood Reading Series #8 hosted by Dream Poet For Hire

Join us at Philly Typewriter on Tuesday, February 11th at 6pm for the Atop An Underwood Reading Series #8. Hosted by Dream Poet For Hire

We return to Philly Typewriter with jazz poems, travel stories, and songs of empowerment. We’ll channel the counterculture of the Beat Generation in community and spoken word. In addition, the typewriters will be set up to write an original scroll like Jack Kerouac’s On The Road together. All are welcome. Aspiring beatniks, dharma bums, and general poetry lovers encouraged. Come for the featured readers and stay for the open mic. A perfect community to try your hands at a typewriter and find your voice in a poem.

Featured performer includes: Amber Renee, Julia Daye, and Christopher K.P. Brown

Refreshments will be provided. Bring your friends.

Doors at 6pm. Open mic starts at 6:30pm.

Philly Typewriter is a wheelchair accessible venue.

Amber Renee

Amber Renee (she/her) is a chronic writer from Bucks County, PA. Known to mix mediums, Amber self-published her first book "Thoughts on This Most Recent Episode" in 2016, closely followed by its musical counterpart on SoundCloud. In January 2020 came a Poetry-Picture book called “i feel like i’m nothing” available online. Early pandemic saw Amber experimenting more with “Poetry-Songs," most listenable via SoundCloud. In 2022 her first traditionally published book called "In memory, energy" was released by Moonstone Press. Her latest book is a full length entitled "Nothing / is Forever: a collection of sad & spiritual poems from my 20s." Lately she's been co-creating Poetry-Songs with a friend under the name “The Goodbye Mind.” The duo's songs are available on Spotify, Apple Music & Youtube.

Christopher K.P. Brown

Pine Bluff, Arkansas native Christopher K.P. Brown is the founder of Pecola Breedlove & The Freedom Party, a West Philadelphia–based open mic poetry event that created a platform for poets both local and national from 2014 to 2019. He is a graduate of Mercer University where he majored in African American Studies with minors in Creative Writing and Studio Art. His newest poetry book and album is titled 84 ULTRA. It includes the poems The Process and This Ain't That. When he isn't working on poetry, he enjoys doing genealogy work for his family tree research company, Before They Were Ancestors, LLC.

Julia Daye

Julia Daye is a poet and writer riveted by the sounds of language and the stories of communities. Her work has appeared in dozens of literary journals and publications including HOWL, A Fistful of Words, The Philadelphia Inquirer, HuffPost, Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee and Live Taos. Julia has been featured by Open Book NYC, Philadelphia Contemporary, The Paseo Project, Taos Woman, SOMOS, the Taos Arts Council, Paris Lit Up and Poets for Peace. Her collection of poems, The Edge of Waking, was published by A Freedom Books in 2017.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Philly Typewriter, 1735 East Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, United States