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ob Zell’s Poetry@P&P reading series holds its May edition on Sunday, May 11 at 7 p.m. This month's featured poets are Charles O'Hay, Julia Daye and Sydney Coffin.
Sydney Hunt Coffin's essays, journalism, and poetry have been published through Yale University, Moonstone Books, Mad House Press, the Friends Journal, the Philadelphia Writing Project, the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, and the University of New Mexico's Daily Lobo. He has also worked as an English teacher and Poetry SLAM team coach in Philadelphia for more than two decades.

Mr. Coffin has represented Pennsylvania on the Teacher Advisory Council at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, served for five years on the National Steering Committee at the Yale National Initiative to strengthen teaching in high-needs schools, and served two different Philadelphia schools with a Fellowship at the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia. He is currently a guidance counselor and English language educator at South Philadelphia's Job Corps, a non-residential campus serving the Department of Labor's vocational-technical branch of AmeriCorps.


Julia Daye is a poet and writer riveted by the sound of language and stories of communities. Author of The Edge of Waking (A Freedom Books, 2017), she has been featured, among others, by Open Book NYC, Philadelphia Contemporary, Poets for Peace and the PASEO Project. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and journals.
When she’s not writing poetry, Julia works as a journalist and was the 2021 recipient of NMBA Awards for her reporting on domestic violence and water disputes in the Mountain West.


Charlie O'Hay is a West Philly poet whose work has appeared in over 200 journals.

His previous collections include Far from Luck and Smoking in Elevators.

His third collection, The Flame Orchard, is being published by Ruby Violet Publishers in April.

An open mic reading follows the featured poets. Bring your stuff and show everyone what you've got!