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All are welcome to attend World Above! Share your poetry in this supportive community event.Join us Wednesday, June 26, 2024, at 7:00pm EDT at Stockton University’s Noyes Arts Garage (2200 Fairmount Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401) or online via Zoom (https://stockton.zoom.us/j/95192100891...).
🎙️The featured poet for June is Rocky Wilson.
Rocky Wilson is a poet, performance artist, and teacher who lives near the Delaware River in Camden. He has a Master’s Degree in Dance Education from Temple and has studied creative writing at both Penn State and Rutgers University.
In 1992, the 100th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s death, Rocky performed his own multi-disciplinary work, Walt, the Ferry’s Back!; a tribute to the Good Grey Poet and to the city of Camden. Since then, Rocky has been interpreting Whitman in schools and libraries, for historical groups, and at the Philly Fringe Festival.
Quite often Rocky can be seen biking along the waterfront with his little monkey companion, Bongo. Called “The Puppet Laureate of Camden,” Rocky has been working as a substitute teacher in the city for over 40 years. With the help of Bongo, Rocky wrote a children’s book, The Lucky Monkey, which incorporates artwork by the Camden school children.
Rocky has written several chapbooks and a full length collection titled The Last Bus to Camden, released on February 13, 2016, Camden’s 188th birthday. Besides writing poems, Rocky hosts Pizza & Poetry at A Slice of New York in Camden; it is one of the longest-running poetry series in New Jersey.
World Above open mic participants are invited to read one poem or prose piece that is less than two minutes long. Please arrive in-person or online by 6:50pm to secure a spot in the Open.
All participants will receive a free take-home writing prompt penned by Barbara Daniels.
Please invite your friends to this event, join and share it on Facebook, and link our website (https://sjpoets.wordpress.com) to your social media.
Questions about this series or to recommend or apply to be a featured poet, please contact Emari DiGiorgio ([email protected]).
World Above is made possible with support from Murphy Writing of Stockton University, The Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University, and the Atlantic County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2200 Fairmount Ave., Atlantic City, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08401
