Live Poetry: House Poet with Mike Bagwell and Michael Ivory

Wednesday January 8, 2025 – 7:00pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street

On Zoom –  Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpdu-spzsiEtHWlYze5LmC-S7s1MFjVGdK

House Poet @ Fergie’s Pub – Since March 2022, House Poet has strived to bring together writers, dancers, DJs, and musicians. Join us as we bring that energy to Moonstone’s Poetry Nights at Fergies, which features an open reading, featured readers, live music, and a soundtrack you can dance to.

Mike Bagwell is a debris language and a writer in Philly. He’s deep into a multimedia Gilgamesh translation that’ll be hundreds of thousands of pages and take 200 years to complete. Recent work appears in Action Spectacle, ITERANT, Sprung Formal, Annulet, Tyger Quarterly, THRUSH, and others. He runs the Ghost Harmonics reading series. Find him at mikebagwell.me, @low_gh0st, or playing dragons with his daughters

Michael Ivory is a Miami, FL native whose journeys have led him to Philadelphia. A preacher’s kid by birth and a magician in his daydreams, his writing has been an unending journey to share the magic he feels in the everyday with others. Whether it’s the wonder of water, the anointing that is queerness, or the way-making power of Black folks, he wants to help people marvel at it. His work can be read in Waterproof: Evidence of a Miami Worth Remembering and heard in the forthcoming Audio-Anthology: Who We Are is Made, both published with O, Miami. Michael holds an MFA in Fiction from North Carolina State University and can be found using his spare time becoming a Pokemon master or laughing way too loudly.

Lindsay Hargrave, Warren Longmire – Hosts – Open Reading Follows