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"PhillyTalks #19"

Allen Fisher, Karen Mac Cormack

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Event Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
PhillyTalks Series | Organized by Louis Cabri

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003



Allen Fisher, born in 1944, has been writing poetry since 1962. A painter, printer, publisher and editor he has produced 114 chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics, art documentation and essays. He is currently the editor of Spanner and he lives in Hereford, England.

Karen Mac Cormack, born in Zambia, is the author of eight collections of poetry including Straw Cupid, Quill Driver, Quirks and Quillets, Marine Snow and The Tongue Moves Talk. Mac Cormack’s work has been anthologized in such collections as Into the Nightlife and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative North American Poetry, as well as the important Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK and Moving Borders. Mac Cormack continues to live, write, and edit in Toronto.

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