Sunday April 20, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0vQ-qLRCTqaki87Hoxes8A International Haiku Poetry Day (April 17) was started in 2007 and later taken on by The Haiku Foundation in celebration of National Poetry Month (April). According to The Haiku Foundation, the haiku is an ancient and undefinable-in-English form of Japanese poetry. At its most basic, […]
Wednesday April 23, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Thomas Devaney is a poet, facilitator, educator and author of Getting to Philadelphia and You Are the Battery. His work is featured in Best American Poetry 2019. Sean Lynch, author of five, has been the editor of various magazines, journals, […]
Tuesday April 29, 2025 – 5:45pm – LIVE – Grid Books Authors Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 JoAnne McFarland is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and independent curator, author of American Graphic, A Domestic Lookbook and Pullman. Lisa Sewell is the author several books of poetry, Flood Plain, Impossible Object and Birds […]
Wednesday April 30, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Bobby Zankel is a Philadelphia-based saxophonist and composer whose music moves between fire and ritual, freedom and form. Sekai’afua Zankel is a poet, performer, and lifelong artist-activist whose work fuses spoken word, theater, dance, and spiritual revolution. kami x is […]
Sunday May 4, 2025 – VIRTUAL – World Press Freedom Day The United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day, observed to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to […]
