Controlled Conversations at Head House Books, Philadelphia, PA

Mon, May 5, 2025. 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm. (rescheduled from Feb 13, 2025)

619 S. 2nd St., Philadelphia, PA 19147.

In conversation with Tricia Coscia, a writer and human rights activist.

Straddling the historic Philadelphia communities of Society Hill and Queen Village, Head House Books was founded in 2005 on the belief that no community is complete without the inspiration and exchange of ideas that only a locally-owned, independent bookstore can provide. Named Best Bookstore by both Philadelphia Magazine and Philadelphia Style.

About my conversation partner, Tricia Coscia:

Tricia Crawford Coscia's poems have appeared in A&U: America's AIDS Magazine, the anthology Literature from the First Twenty Years of A&U (Black Lawrence Press), Connecticut River Review, Many Colored Brooms, Parting Gifts (March Street Press), the 2018 anthology, 50/50: Poems & Translations by Women Over 50 (Quills Edge Press), and Peregrine Journal. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Bluegrass Writers Studio in 2018. Tricia was named a finalist in poetry in the 2019 Disquiet International Literary Contest and was a runner-up for 2017 Bucks County, Pennsylvania Poet Laureate. She writes with concern for social and environmental justice, inspired by years of work in supporting humanitarian causes, and currently works for Witness to Innocence, a program that supports and empowers death-row exonerees in their advocacy to end the death penalty.