Sunday April 17, 2pm – VIRTUAL – International Haiku Day Registration Required, Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdOCsqzkjGtNEuH75LhkFaTTLV7PkKZyV The old pond, A frog jumps in, Plop! Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) – Translated by Allan Watts The Old Pond may be the most famous of all haiku “Haiku is an important form of creative expression because it distills language down […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: Quincy Scott Jones, Marci Blackman, Sarah Gambito, D. Nurkse, Bushra Rehman, Yolanda Wisher Thursday April 21, 2022 – 7pm – VIRTUAL Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-usqjwuGteb-36iCgphT76_l9ZkiKT9 Join us for a night celebrating poetry and Quincy Scott Jones’ new-ish book How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children, a meditation […]
Virtual Poetry Event: Earth Day Sunday April 24, 2022 – 2pm – VIRUAL – Earth Day (April 22, 2022) Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kceGuqj4rE9BYdBT7P4IXS-2P4v93SRNJ What world are you inheriting? What world are we passing on? First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org […]
Live Poetry Reading: Alicia Askenase, Julia Blumenreich Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudOqpqT8oEt0RnjqPfwJgqoS46VZuKs6W Alicia Askenase is the author of The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press) and Shirley Shirley (sonaweb) and a few chaplets. She was a co-founding editor of the literary journal 6ix, […]
Virtual Poetry Event: International Worker’s Day Sunday May 1, 2022 – 2 pm -VIRTUAL – International Workers’ Day (Labor Day, May 1) Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtf–qrT0pGtX7GFWtGu2R5kGRSju8bauy International Workers’ Day, also known as Labor Day in most countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of laborers and the […]
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Katie Ford Tuesday May 3, 2022, 6:30pm – VIRTUAL 699 Ranstead Street Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. 2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Katie Ford is the author of four books of poems: Deposition; Colosseum; Blood Lyrics; and If You Have to Go. Blood […]
Live Poetry Reading: Jacob L. Camacho, Gina Myers, Ryan Eckes Wednesday May 4, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrf-uorzosHdZJNPRXR3kPUT25I8ohQknW Jacob L. Camacho is a CHamoru writer, educator, and activist born and raised in Guahan (Guam), of Islas Marianas. He received […]
Remembering Thomas Kinsella Sunday May 8, 2022 – 2pm Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApf-GpqTwpE9QBzsJ92os8X53FdKo3E0zv Thomas Kinsella (4 May 1928 – 22 December 2021) was an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher. He began publishing poetry in the early 1950s and, around the same time, translated early Irish poetry into English. In the […]
Live Poetry Reading: Terence Culleton, Emiliano Martin, Anne-Adele Wight Wednesday May 11, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvdO6tqD4qGNGb2JxU8ATv4mRIoTmU3fFu Terence Culleton has published several collections of formally crafted narrative and lyric poems, including A Communion of Saints and Eternal Life. His […]
Jazz and Finnegans Wake: Jam Session Sunday May 15, 2022 – 5 pm Live at Fergie’s Pub & Online 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqceusqj8jHNTEJbA47-4Q57xV7jsy66bq Come witness the Jazz Experiment of the Ages! Horns and Drums and Arms and Lungs will be Jamming the Lyrical, Witty, […]
