Philly Dame

Catie Rosemurgy’s first poetry collection, My Favorite Apocalypse, was recognized by The Rona Jaffe Foundation with an award for an emerging female writer. She is also the recipient of a National Endowment for The Arts Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, The Best American Poetry 1997, American Poetry Review The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. Her second poetry collection, The Stranger Manual, is forthcoming.

Thomas Devaney is the author of A Series of Small Boxes and The American Pragmatist Fell in Love. He is the editor of ONAnd On-Screen, a website that pairs poems and videos. Devaney was a curatorial consultant for the 2008-2009 exhibition “Quote the Raven” on Edgar Allan Poe for the Free Library of Philadelphia.