Poets performed on The Main Stage at Wells Park from 5:00pm to 6:00pm.
Born in Cleveland and raised in Erie by two parents from western New York, Chuck Joy has been publishing poetry since 1980 in magazines, anthologies, and books. His current collection is called Vinyl, available wherever books are sold by order. Chuck was Erie County Poet Laureate, 2018-2021, during which time he visited Girard HS.
Chuck is a member of the International Family of Poets and Spoken Word Artists, also the Italian American Writers Association. Joy was guest poet with the Italian American Studies Association. He was a member of the Second Tuesday Community Poetry Workshop, Mercyhurst University.
Thasia Anne is a retired social worker and lifelong poet from Erie Pennsylvania poet who has six books of poetry and five novels published through Alien Buddha Press. She also has Cable Access Media programming; Poetry, Prose, and Personalities and Never Quit-Hers. Her favorite accomplishment is a yearly live poetry production WOW, or Women of Word with a Few Man Made Words which has been WOWing people for 12 years. Check her out on ThasiaAnne.com, or Thasia Anne Lunger on Facebook.
Nick Constantino
Nicholas Constantino is a freelance poet and writer who lives in Erie, Pa. Religious, Inspirational and Children’s poems make up his work.
Barbara Crone
Barbara Crone wonders and observes, and her musings form themselves into poems and paintings. She loves her family, her students, and the gift of speech which she believes should be used with the utmost reverence.
She does her best to honor the gift with her humble offerings and asks for mercy when she stumbles.
Dave Devine
David Devine is a poet and a songwriter. His poetry has appeared on NPR’s “The Writers
Almanac” and “The Prairie Home Companion” and the weekly “West County Journal”. You can
find his poetry book “My Father And Me” at DevineSongs.
Luchetta Manus
Luchetta “Cookee” Manus is a mother of 4 kids and grandmother of 6. She is an author, poet, photographer, visual artist, art teacher, and mural technician. Luchetta’s art work and writings are in various spaces in the local Erie area where she resides. Luchetta’s work includes, but not limited to radio, television, plays, and writing books of poetry. Luchetta is a community activist who enjoys helping others and advocating for victims of domestic violence, youth, and other marginalized people.
Jane MacKinlay McCartney
Jane MacKinlay McCartney has been published in several anthologies, the most recent being Volume 1 of the Erie County Poetry Anthology (2022). She is a regular participant in various poetry events in the Erie area and thoroughly enjoys “playing with words.”
Photography Credit: Volume 1 of the Erie County Poetry Anthology, with poems from poets in Erie County, Pennsylvania. Cover Image by Victoria Brogdon
Cathi Gg Mitchell
Cathi Gg Mitchell is a Word Expressionist and founder of Out of the Abundance. She has been writing poetry since the age of 8. She is a member of the Chroma Guild, PennWriters, the Unsealed, and 814 Poets and also has performed in WOW Women of Word with a few Man Made Words. Gg’s poems can be found on the walls of the Historical Institute of Culture and the African American Experience and she has judged numerous poetry contests. She is currently in the process of curating a photopoetry book about Erie, PA.
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