Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) verified over 12,600 civilian deaths as of January 2025. The war has resulted in a humanitarian crisis, as thousands of Ukrainians were internally displaced or fled abroad. From a population of 41 million, about 8 […]
Jane-Rebecca Cannarella is a writer and editor living in West Philadelphia. She edits HOOT Review, a magazine published on postcards, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, a broadside press, and was an editor for Lunch Ticket from 2015 to 2017. Krystle Griffin is an Aquarian alien who emerged from the depths of the Delaware River. […]
Love McTiernan feels an obsession with the natural world and thus tends to write about clouds, trees, and Earth’s other unknown beasts. Myles Matunis work has been published by Expat Press and the Bitchin Kitsch, featured on public radio, and nominated for the Best of the Net. Adiah Siler is an east coaster through and […]
Come and join us in a plurilingual workshop Where all the languages in your head are welcome. We will listen to each other, share words and ideas, read and make poems. This workshop will explore the crossing of borders both linguistic and political and the spaces between, rooted in a trauma informed, anti-racist pedagogy and […]
In the circle of all those who have struggled in their bedrooms or in the boardroom, in the courtroom or in the open fields, who have bellowed songs of endurance and stomped their feet in joyful defiance for brighter futures, Carole Metellus and Fióna Bolger invite us to renew our mandate to struggle and joy. Participants are invited to […]
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAMCan be viewed on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Fióna Bolger is an Irish poet, mentor and creative facilitator, author of Love in the Original Language and a compound of word, co-editor of KIN: Anthology of Roma, Traveller and Nomadic Women’s Writing. Her facilitation and […]
Asia – Katherine Sarwopeni Antarikso is an architect, artist, and activist was born in Jakarta.Western Europe – Fióna Bolger is a poet, mentor, creative facilitator from Ireland. Middle East – Faleeha Hassan was born and raised in Najaf, Iraq, she was the first woman in Najaf to publish a book of. Eastern Europe – Alina […]
Women, trans and nonbinary writers are invited to contribute to the 2025 edition of S/He Speaks anthology and to participate in an event at The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania on June 7, 2025. The anthology will contain poetry, essays and stories by writers who are either women, trans or non-binary identified.
Women, trans and nonbinary writers are invited to contribute to the 2025 edition of S/He Speaks anthology and to participate in an event at The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania on June 7, 2025. The anthology will contain poetry, essays and stories by writers who are either women, trans or non-binary identified.
Courtney Bambrick author of World Without was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories 2010-2024. She teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus in Philadelphia. Her own poems appear in Landlocked Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, Thimble, Invisible City, and more. Michael Angelo Abreu, author of Gemini, is a leaf. He takes frequent walks through the Wissahickon […]
