House Poet: Beyond the Grave with Nicole Coladonato & Rachel Eve Wednesday, October 29th at 7pm Live at Fergies Pub, 1214 Sansom St. Nicole Coladonato @fouronefivetwo began performing in her youth and quickly developed an affection for the spotlight. She quit being a failed visual artist to become a writer, embracing this new path with […]
Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound’s contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with developing […]
“In Headless, poet Sean Hanrahan takes us on a winding road that twists through desire, intellectual curiosity, and various explored icons—pop culture, mythic, historic, political, sexual—traveling with a speaker always seeking to understand who and what society expects him to be. If art is a conversation with everything before and after, then so is identity, […]
“In flashes of recollection, in flares of supposition and speculation, the fragments and fables of Ditta Baron Hoeber’s Without You trace the aftermath of a childhood trauma, with its attendant guilts and resentments and mystifications. Terse, taut, gnomic, wrenching, and subtly evocative, Without You offers a compelling demonstration of a reality at once irrecoverable and […]
Peace like War is Waged A Discussion and Reading with Jan Barry and W.D. Ehrhart Thursday, November 13th @ 5:30pm Live Poetry @ Central Free Library, 1901 Vine Street, History Department on 2nd Floor “One Jan Barry’s most characteristic beliefs comes from a poem called “The Peacemaker” by Walker Knight: “Peace, like war, is waged.” […]
Live Poetry: Magnus Mateo, Jane Edna Mohler, & Louisa Schnaithmann Live @ Fergies Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Magnus Mateo is a genderfluid, neurodivergent poet, performer, and event organizer based in the Lehigh Valley. In addition to their debut chapbook, She’s Jealous of my Purple Sky, Magnus has been published in various literary magazines and poetry […]
Book Release: And If You Saw Me by Craig Czury Featuring: Craig Czury, J. C. Todd, and Olga Livshin Live at Fergies Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Craig Czury has been conducting innovative life-writing and poetry workshops in schools, shelters, prisons, psych wards, community centers, and universities for over 30 years. A native of the Wilkes-Barre […]
Live Poetry: Barb Gonzalez & c.r. hooker Live @ Fergies Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Barb Gonzalez (they/he) is a Philadelphia based poet just here to prove that there is something charming, or maybe a lesson to be learned in the mundane. as a haunter of dreams, naturally they write about nightmares and woes of their […]
New Voices: Fall 2025 A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. This bi-annual publication invites poets to voice their experiences, introduce their new ways of thinking, and create the next generation of poetry. New Voices brings diverse voices and perspectives to print, from varied ethnic, gender, and class backgrounds. Join […]
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30. In Philadelphia. Leonard Gontarek is the author of eight books of poems, his poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Field, Poet Lore, Fence, and in the anthologies, The Best American Poetry among others. He coordinates The […]
