Listening Party With Yolanda Wisher on June 19

Join former Philadelphia Poet Laureate Yolanda Wisher on June 19 as she shares poetry excerpts from local poets set to music by her band, the Afro Eaters.

Former Philadelphia Poet Laureate Yolanda Wisher leads a poetry workshop for more than a dozen people in Lafayette College's Williams Visual Arts Building as part of the Karl Stirner Arts Trail's Poetry in the Wild Project in Easton, Pennsylvania.

The event begins at 5 p.m. at the Grace Gate sculpture on the Karl Stirner Arts Trail, which leads to Easton Cemetery.

The audio is planned as an installation on the arts trail. The poems were created during a workshop sponsored by KSAT and led by Wisher, its 2025 Artist-in-Residence.

Other Poetry in the Wild events:

  • Thursdays in June, 5-8 p.m., West Ward Market – spontaneous, personalized six-word poems composed for visitors on a vintage typewriter by Maryann Riker
  • Wednesday, July 1, 4:30 p.m., location TBA – “Or We Could” poetry workshop with Ross Gay, register: info@karlstirnerartstrail.org
  • Saturday, Nov. 28, time/location TBA – Ross Gay reading and project

Poetry in the Wild is supported in part with funding from the Hotel Tax grant programs through Northampton County’s Department of Community & Economic Development, a Crayola Community Grant, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts.