The Traveling PoetryEmporium
thepoetryemporium
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802.380.0665
The Traveling Poetry Emporium
bespoke poetry on antique typewriters, composed live
How It Works
what to expect from the Emporium at a live event
1Name a Subject
1. Visitors to our booth name any topic they like (an image, a dream, an object... anything!)
2A Poem is Born
2. One of the Emporium's poets will compose an original poem on the topic given within five minutes, typed on a manual Hermes typewriter
3Keep the Result
3. The poet reads the poem aloud before handing the visitor the only existing copy of the poem, which is theirs to keep
Book us to visit your venue or event today!
Where do we type?
- Museums
- Schools
- Festivals
- Book Fairs
- Parties
- Weddings
- Corporate Events
- & anywhere else!
See for yourself!
Watch us in-action as we work with Monmouth University students:
The Poets
GennaRose Nethercott
...is the author of a novel, Thistlefoot, and a book-length poem, The Lumberjack’s Dove, which was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series. A writer and folklorist alike, she helps create the podcast Lore, and she tours nationally and internationally performing strange tales (sometimes with puppets in tow). Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart—her latest book—marks her debut into short fiction. She lives in the woodlands of Vermont, beside an old cemetery.
Cassandra de Alba
...is a poet living in Massachusetts. Her chapbooks habitats (Horse Less Press, 2016) and ORB (Reality Hands, 2018) are about deer and the moon, respectively, and Ugly/Sad is forthcoming from Glass Poetry Press in 2020. Her work has appeared in The Shallow Ends, Underblong, Big Lucks, and Bedfellows, among other publications. She is a co-host at the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge, a poetry reader for IDK Magazine, and an associate editor at Pizza Pi Press.
Julia Story
...is the author of Post Moxie (Sarabande Books) and the chapbooks The Trapdoor (dancing girl press) and Julie the Astonishing (Sixth Finch Books). She is a 2016 recipient of a Pushcart Prize and her recent work can be read in Sixth Finch, Tinderbox, and Tupelo Quarterly. She is a Midwesterner who now lives in Massachusetts.
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