Virtual Poetry Reading: International Women’s Day 2022 Sunday March 6, 2022 – 2pm EST Registration Required-Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkdOGhrzMpH9w44h0epioF-_rK2dcB0-iI Readings from our new anthology, International Women’s Day 2022 “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy Imagine a gender equal world. […]
Live Poetry Reading: Lucia Herrmann, Nicole Liu, George Schaefer Wednesday March 9, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsfuurqDktGNK1pjW8ei1mSqsPb1VFpMOd Lucia Herrmann is an artist and educator originally from Miami, FL who thinks a lot about her sinking […]
Live Poetry Reading: Kate Carey, Philip Dykhouse, Massimo Elijah Wednesday March 16, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street – and streamed on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpdumqqz0qH9JKbFehlZlazFvB9TqUx2rx Kate Carey (she/her) is a fat queer polyamorous slut who sometimes spends whole days in bed crying because feelings […]
Sunday April 10, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL – – registration required at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrf-CgrD8uH9ZLWJTWV627rAArWkH5IjA0 Tribute to Rosemary Cappello Poet, Writer, Watercolorist, Editor of “Philadelphia Poets” Rosemary Cappello is a poet, painter, prose writer, community organizer, and editor whose work has appeared in such venues as Voices in Italian Americana, Poet Lore, Iconoclast, Avanti Popolo, Sweet […]
Live Poetry Reading: W.D. Ehrhart, Lynn Levin, Amber Renee 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucuCgqzIuH9yFuMAp-FO6iL9rBOqligPl D. Ehrhart began writing when he was 15 years old and has been writing ever since. Eight of his poems were included in Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans […]
Saturday April 16, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL – New Voices: Emerging Poets Registration Required, Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcOCrrTgpH9eHzx8FFy7kTWkpF7osbsal New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. Maura Gallagher, a freshman at Villa Maria Academy High School, where she contributes to the school literary magazine. […]
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, […]
