WHERE: Sidewalk Café, 94 Avenue A (6th Street) East Village, NYC-10009 - WHEN: Saturday, April 14, 2018 @ 5:30 – 7:30 pm

WHO: Maria Fama’ is the author of seven books of poetry including Mystics in the Family, Looking for Cover, and the newly released, Other Nations :an animal journal. Her work appears in numerous publications and has been anthologized. Fama’ has read her poetry in many cities across the country, read one of her stories on National Public Radio, and co-founded a video production company. Her poems have won prizes, including the Amy Tritsch Needle Award and the Aniello Lauri Prize. In 1998 her poem “6:35 AM” was a finalist in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. She lives and works in Philadelphia.