Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Quartet no. 1 in F major, Op 18 no 1

Quartet no. 15 in A minor, Op. 132

With poetry from Thomas Devaney, Mary Osunlana, Davy Knittle, and Yolanda Wisher.

THOMAS DEVANEY is the author of four poetry collections, Calamity Jane (Furniture Press Books, 2014), The Picture that Remains (The Print Center, 2014), A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum, 2007), The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press, 1999), and a nonfiction book Letters to Ernesto Neto (Germ Folios, 2005). Devaney teaches creative writing at Haverford College where his collaborative projects with faculty and staff include the poetry tree tour "Under An Oak" and “INSIDE,” a meditation on space and confinement. Devaney is also the editor of ONandOnScreen, an e-journal featuring poems and videos. He was featured on WHYY TV-12's Friday Arts Program (Ocotber 2012) for his book The Picture that Remains.

DAVY KNITTLE's poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Fence, Jacket2, Denver Quarterly and Boston Review, and his collaborations with Sophia Dahlin are forthcoming in Eleven Eleven. His chapbook, cyclorama, was released by The Operating System in April 2015. He received his MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2015, where he was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Knittle is a doctoral candidate in English at Penn.

YOLANDA WISHER is the current Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, a distinction given to one talented poet, who is chosen as a leader in their discipline and is dedicated to advancing their art form and the city's poetry community. During her two-year term, Wisher has engaged with the city of Philadelphia through events, community service activities, speaking, and has served as a mentor for the city's Youth Poet Laureate. A champion of poetry and education, Wisher uses her platform to speak on the African American experience and the complexities of womanhood. Wisher has been a beneficiary of and a force within Philadelphia's poetry scene for the past two decades, while promoting poetry as a public, healing, and activist art.