Live Poetry: Derrick C. Brown & Erica Miriam Fabri

Wednesday December 10, 2025 – 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street

Derrick C. Brown is a renowned poet, comedian and former Paratrooper. He is the poet laureate of Los Feliz, CA. His album, ‘A Close Shave with Heaven’ earned him Paste Magazine’s ‘2023 Album of the Year.’ Winner of the Texas Book of The Year award for Poetry, owner and president of Write Bloody Publishing, hailed by Forbes and Filter Magazine as one of the nation’s premier independent poetry presses with a sister company, Write Bloody North in Toronto. He has authored ten poetry books and four children’s books. Brown’s impact on literature is undeniable. He’s toured stages worldwide, from Glastonbury to The Tonight Show, and collaborates with poets and comedians like Bobcat Goldthwait, Kristin Schaal, David Cross, and Eugene Mirman.

Erica Miriam Fabri is a NYC-based poet and the author of Dialect of a Skirt (a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize) and Morphology (winner of the Write Bloody Publishing Jack McCarthy Book Prize.) Her poetry has been widely published in magazines, anthologies, and featured in multi-media formats including art installations, short films, and television commercials. She teaches writing at Pace University and for The City University of New York.

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