Live Poetry: Dan Kraines, Amy Saul-Zerby & Rocky Wilson Wednesday, June 10th @ 7pm Live at Fergies Pub Dan Kraines is a queer poet of Viennese, Bolivian, and Ukrainian heritage. Strap is his first full length book. Dan works at the writers residency Hawthornden Brooklyn on weekends, and for the poet Sharon Olds during the week. ” Dan […]
Live Poetry: Indran Amirthanayagam, Claudia Gary & Mike Jurkovic Wednesday July 8, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Indran Amirthanayagam is a poet, editor, publisher, translator, youtube host and diplomat. He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole and is the author of 30 books and translations. […]
Vasiliki Argyris looks for the threads that bind history, poetry, and walking the earth. Her work can be found in Voicemail Poems, Pamphilet, and Works & Days. William Lessard writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, and others, he is the Poetry & Hybrids editor at Heavy Feather Review.
Live Poetry: Michael J. Ivory Jr., Matthew Kosinski, & Mattie Phrances McDonald Wednesday July 1, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Michael J. Ivory, Jr. is a Worker of the Word — in other words, a writer. A Miami, FL-native, he currently lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As the queer son of […]
The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of other civil liberties. However, in recent years its democratic institutions have suffered erosion, as reflected in rising political polarization and extremism, partisan pressure on […]
Wednesday July 8, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE Indran Amirthanayagam is a poet, editor, publisher, translator, youtube host and diplomat. He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole and is the author of 30 books and translations. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly, writes a weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento; […]
Saturday, July 11th, 2026 – 4 to 7 pm City Arts Salon, 5838 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144 Painting in the Dark interrogates the hideousness of war, addiction, and delusion with the consolation concluding poet John Lavin’s final poem, –but that’s all we have is each other. Illustrators Gregorio Torres, III and Janelle Robinson have […]
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series with Jim Timpane Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Watch on the PhillyCAM website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. John Timpane was a professor and lecturer in English, first at Rutgers University and later at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. In 1997 The Philadelphia Inquirer, hired him […]
Live Poetry: Jessica Buten, Caroline Furr, Ben Saff, Abby Minor & Amy Thatcher Wednesday July 15, 2026 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Jessica Buten is a poet from Bucks County. Caroline Furr has a decades long history in painting, sculpture, interior and surface design, gallery and museum work. At this less […]
Censorship: A Panel Discussion with Larry Robin, Ernest Hilbert, & Keith Kopka Sat, July 18, 2026 @ 2:00 P.M. Rare Book Department at Parkway Central Library Cost: FREEElkins Library, 3rd FloorA discussion on censorship with Larry Robin, Director of Moonstone Arts Center and former owner of Robin’s Book Store, which was the Philadelphia defendant in the Tropic […]
