Wednesday October 1, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE – Poetry & Music

Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street

Launch of A Little Music For the Soft War by Mark Svenvold

Poet, songwriter, and nonfiction writer, Mark Svenvold’s book of poems, Soul Data, won the Vassar Miller Award, selected by Heather McHugh; Empire Burlesque, won The Journal Prize. Svenvold’s poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, and others. He teaches creative writing at Seton Hall University. A denizen and regular performer at CBGB’s before it became a clothing store, Ted Sabety studied guitar with Larry Coryell, electronic music with Morton Subotnick, and  composition with Marty Bresnick. Recently, his punk-wave act Les Techno’s  “Edge of the World” reached # 20 and #144, respectively, on the Indie DRT and Global DRT charts.

With Special Features

“Elliot Levin on tenor saxophone and flute, has a career as a published poet and likes to combine the two aesthetics in his performances, much to the delight of the growing live poetry audience, there is nothing watered-down about his performances, no attempt to make the music a bit more accessible to the novices, tender-hearted or just plain wimpy. On the poetry scene he has performed with Miguel Algarin, Gloria Tropp, Mbali Umoja, Marty Watt, and Frank Messina.

Lindsay Hargrave is a poet, first mate at Scribes on South, a coproducer at House Poet, half of the experimental group Kelpius, the author of two chapbooks and a copywriter for Temple University. Aaren Perry Host: Open Reading Follows