Wednesday October 8, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Sueno Restaurant, 114 S. 12th Street Alicia Askenase is the author of several books, was a founding co-editor of the literary journal 6ix, and director of the Walt Whitman Art Center Literary programs for many years. Her poetry has appeared in various journals. Cassie MacDonald […]
Indigenous Peoples Day Sunday October 12, 2025 – 2pm VIRTUAL Register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ITiexC3URACn-4yLkowizw Submit to be a part of the anthology before Oct. 5th: https://moonstoneartscenter.submittable.com/projects/edit/3d76a3e1-a9d1-403b-b835-d63e8c9d4b51 Indigenous Peoples Day will be celebrated on Monday, October 13th. The date falls on the same day as Columbus Day, giving us a chance to shift the focus […]
Heather Bowlan, author of Highlights and Blackouts and co-director of Philadelphia Small Works, an art gallery and performance space. Christopher K.P. Brown aka KP ULTRA is the founder of Pecola Breedlove & The Freedom Party, ran 2 Pens & Lint, under which he published chapbooks for over 400 runs Poetry215.com. His newest poetry […]
House Poet: Beyond the Grave with Nicole Coladonato & Rachel Eve Wednesday, October 29th at 7pm Live at Fergies Pub, 1214 Sansom St. Nicole Coladonato @fouronefivetwo began performing in her youth and quickly developed an affection for the spotlight. She quit being a failed visual artist to become a writer, embracing this new path with […]
Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound’s contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with developing […]
“In Headless, poet Sean Hanrahan takes us on a winding road that twists through desire, intellectual curiosity, and various explored icons—pop culture, mythic, historic, political, sexual—traveling with a speaker always seeking to understand who and what society expects him to be. If art is a conversation with everything before and after, then so is identity, […]
“In flashes of recollection, in flares of supposition and speculation, the fragments and fables of Ditta Baron Hoeber’s Without You trace the aftermath of a childhood trauma, with its attendant guilts and resentments and mystifications. Terse, taut, gnomic, wrenching, and subtly evocative, Without You offers a compelling demonstration of a reality at once irrecoverable and […]
Peace like War is Waged A Discussion and Reading with Jan Barry and W.D. Ehrhart Thursday, November 13th @ 5:30pm Live Poetry @ Central Free Library, 1901 Vine Street, History Department on 2nd Floor “One Jan Barry’s most characteristic beliefs comes from a poem called “The Peacemaker” by Walker Knight: “Peace, like war, is waged.” […]
Live Poetry: Magnus Mateo, Jane Edna Mohler, & Louisa Schnaithmann Live @ Fergies Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Magnus Mateo is a genderfluid, neurodivergent poet, performer, and event organizer based in the Lehigh Valley. In addition to their debut chapbook, She’s Jealous of my Purple Sky, Magnus has been published in various literary magazines and poetry […]
Book Release: And If You Saw Me by Craig Czury Featuring: Craig Czury, J. C. Todd, and Olga Livshin Live at Fergies Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Craig Czury has been conducting innovative life-writing and poetry workshops in schools, shelters, prisons, psych wards, community centers, and universities for over 30 years. A native of the Wilkes-Barre […]
