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Hearing Women’s Voices: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Michelle Myers, & Kimmika L.H Williams-Witherspoon

Barnes and Noble 1708 Chesnut St. 1708 Chesnut Street., Phildelphia, PA, United States

Join us for Live Poetry at Barnes and Noble! Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the author of three poetry collections: 40 WEEKS, Don’t Touch the Bones, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize, and The Many Names for Mother, winner the Wick Poetry Prize and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is currently working on […]

Poetry Reading: Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Finalists

The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Moonstone Arts Center and the Literature Department of The Free Liberty of Philadelphia Present: Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Finalists  The Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Program is designed to award a young poet (14-18) the title of Youth Poet Laureate who is well versed in poetic expression, exemplifies a deep understanding of poetic language, […]

Virtual Poetry: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM with Brain Tierney

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 6/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Brian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float, winner of the 20-2021 Jake Adam York Prize. His poetry and prose have appeared in such journals as Paris […]

Live Poetry: Anuradha Bhowmik, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, Jess Yuan

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Join us for a poetry reading, live at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Anuradha Bhowmik  is a Bangladeshi-American poet and writer from South Jersey, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her first collection Brown Girl Chromatography, a Kundiman Fellow and a 2018 AWP Intro Journals Project Winner in Poetry. Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, a […]

Live Poetry: Ona Gritz, Alina Macneal, Zack Rogow

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Ona Gritz writes memoir, essays, and poetry for adults, verse novels for teens, and fiction for children, her poetry collection Geode was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Zack Rogow is an American poet, playwright, translator, and critic. He is […]

Live Poetry: zach blackwood, Faye Chevalier, Violet Gehringer

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! zach blackwood is a poet and culture writer in philadelphia, author of ultra-fine and the apocryphal chapbook sexy unique hollow point. Faye Chevalier is a Philadelphia-based creatur, lurking. She is the author of futur.txt and flesh_wound, her poetry has been featured in bedfellows, The […]

Live Poetry: Matt Lake, Jon Lawrence, Hannah McDonald

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Matt Lake is frankly baffled, he began writing and editing books about folklore, monsters, and dark history–including his best-known book Weird Pennsylvania. Jon Lawrence poetry and reviews have been published in Newfound, American Writers Review, The Bangalore Review, and others. Hannah McDonald is a writer, […]

Virtual Poetry: International Haiku Day

International Haiku Poetry Day (April 17) was started in 2007 and later taken on by The Haiku Foundation in celebration of National Poetry Month. According to The Haiku Foundation, the haiku is an ancient and undefinable-in-English form of Japanese poetry. At its most basic, it is three lines, the first with five syllables, the second […]

Live Poetry: Warren C. Longmire, Kirwya Sutherland

Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Warren C. Longmire, author of Bird/Diz,  is an uncle, writer, performer and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and mix_lit. Kirwyn Sutherland makes poems centering the black experience in America, […]

Live Poetry: Save Chinatown Anthology Reading

Independence Library 18 S. 7th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Join us for Live Poetry at Independence Library and on Zoom! For 150 years, Philadelphia’s Chinatown has been the cultural heart of Philly’s Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, and our community is worth fighting for. Chinatown has been the place where we share community, culture, and language. It is where generations of immigrants have […]