Atop An Underwood Reading Series #12 hosted by Dream Poet For Hire

We return to Philly Typewriter with jazz poems, travel stories, and songs of empowerment. We’ll channel the counterculture of the Beat Generation in community and spoken word. In addition, the typewriters will be set up to write an original scroll like Jack Kerouac’s On The Road together. All are welcome. Aspiring beatniks, dharma bums, and general poetry lovers encouraged. Come for the featured readers and stay for the open mic. A perfect community to try your hands at a typewriter and find your voice in a poem.

Featured performers include:

Rachel O'Hanlon-Rodriguez

Lindo Yes

Yidan Zeng

Refreshments will be provided. Bring your friends.

Doors at 6pm. Open mic starts at 6:30pm.

Philly Typewriter is a wheelchair accessible venue.

Rachel O’Hanlon-Rodriguez (they/she/he/we/us) is a multidisciplinary performance-based artist, organizer, trauma informed facilitator, non-profit whiz, and lil guy living with C-PTSD. They explore generational cycles, borders, and sovereignty through historic inquiry, poetry, and comedy. Their poetry has been published in the Philadelphia Inquirer (2023), Routledge (2024), and Toho Journal (RIP, 2020). Her solo show, She Was A Conquistawhore, received the 2023 New BIPOC Performance Award from Cannonball and tours across the country. Follow Rachel's art journey on instagram @the.inter.section.

LindoYes (he/him), is a dyslexic spoken word poet born, raised and live in Philadelphia. He has been featured in the Philly Weekly, MetroPhilly, Philadelphia Inquirer, Button Poetry, Voices in Power and Def Poetry Jam to name a few. Lindo poetry have expanded to short animations, gumball machines and plays where he has centered black existence, mental health and fantasy/scifi. He the recipient of 2023 Jackie Robinson award by Color of Change, the 2023 "Change Maker" award by Uptown Standards and nominated "The Social Impact" award by Voices In Power. LindoYes recently released a graphic novel called "Pawnshop" which is a scifi/fantasy anthology on Mental Health base in Philly. Instagram: @lindoyes

Yidan Zeng is a queer, Chinese American artist raised by Guangzhou, China and Memphis, TN who stitches together text/iles, performance, and ancestral rituals toward an embodied practice of attention and care. Currently Philly Typewriter's Artist-in-Residence, they use typewriters as a meditative drawing tool to create what they call "spatial poetries." Instagram: @yidan_zeng

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