Wednesday October 28, 2026 – LIVE

Fergies, 1214 Sansom Street – 7:00 PM

Ona Gritz’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Bellevue Literary Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, One Art, and many other journals and anthologies. Her memoir, Everywhere I Look, received the Clara Johnson Award, the Readers’ Choice Gold Award, Pencraft’s Best Book Award, and was named StoryTrade’s Nonfiction Book of 2024.

Daniel Simpson’s most recent book, Inside the Invisible, won the inaugural Propel Poetry Prize and was nominated for the American Academy of Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He is author of several other books and has been anthologized.

Laura Spagnoli is the author of the chapbook My Dazzledent Days, and her poems have appeared in Bedfellows, Painted Bride Quarterly, Apiary, Philadelphia Stories, The Literary Review, Trinity Review, and elsewhere. She lives with her family in Philadelphia and teaches French.

Anne-Adele Wight Host – Open Reading Follows