About

Beth Feldman Brandt began writing poems on March 18, 2004 at 4:00 am in a hotel in New York City. Since then, her work has explored such divergent themes as herbal remedies, old maps, and dating before the Internet.

She is the author of Sage, a work with visual artist Claire Owen based on a 1633 text of herbal remedies. More about this project can be found here. She is also the author of Solace published by Greenleaf Poetry Press, and created, also with Owen, as part of the 2014 Bartram Boxes Remix exhibition at the Center for Art in Wood in Philadelphia.

Beth made her debut as a performer with RetroLove, an evening-length show that she created and wrote with support from Philadelphia Jazz Project in 2016.  

She was a winner of the 2015 and 2013 Haiku-Year-in-Review poetry competition by Broadsided Press.
Her work has been published in Philadelphia Stories, The Quay Journal of the Arts and The Mad Poet's Review.

Her poem, "Transmutation," based on the life of Charles Darwin, was set to music by composer Andrew Litts as part of "Dialogues with Darwin," a collaborative project between the American Philosophical Society and Network for New Music, performed in February 2010. She again collaborated with Litts on a song cycle based on her poems entitled, Wind Rose that was performed by the Temple University New Music Ensemble.
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Beth is a six-time artist-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation. From 2000-2024, she was the Executive Director of the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation that supports arts and cultural programs in Philadelphia.  She also served as Co-Chair of the Poet Laureate Committee for the City of Philadelphia.

In 2024, Beth put her wordsmithing talents to work to support people in the blind and low-vision community through audio-description for live theatre and other cultural experiences.

Beth lives near Philadelphia with her wife but they would always rather be at the beach.

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