https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/j16zWU86TBajHSEsuQt1Fw Sunday July 6, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL Freedom – for Who, to do What, to Whom Freedom has become a rallying cry for those in power who aim to exploit, to lie, and to endanger the less powerful with impunity. They demand Freedom to contaminate the earth, to deny history, to claim […]
Tuesday July 8, 2025 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Elaine Terranova is the author of eight collections, including most recently Rinse. Her work has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies. She has received the Walt Whitman Award, […]
Wednesday July 9, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Ambition Harper, the first fostercare poet in the United States a lecturer, journalist and a poetic theorist and believes that poetry can change people and change perspectives. Emiliano Martín is the author of over a dozen titles of poetry, a former president […]
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2oRlEo-zRZWnrKAQxejwFw Sunday July 13, 2025 – 2pmEDT – VIRTUAL – From Tupelo Press – From Tupelo Press – an independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers. Mike Carlson, author of Tips to Help You Do Your Best and Cement Guitar. Jenny […]
Tuesday July 15, 2025 – 5pm – LIVE – BETRAYED: Violence Against Women Central Free Library, Skyline Room (4th Floor), 901 Vine Street Featuring Meg Groff, author of Not If I Can Help It: A Family Lawyer’s Battles for Justice for Victims of Domestic Violence and the Poor ($22.95, Rivertowns Books) In a rare, starred […]
Live Poetry: Erica Abbott, Elayna Mae Darcy, Thalia Geiger, Diamante “Dimo” Ortiz, and Faith Paulsen Wednesday July 16, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Erica Abbott is a Philadelphia-based poet and writer whose work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Shō Poetry Journal, Pirene’s Fountain, Midway Journal, and […]
Virtual Reading: Betrayed: Violence Against Women Sunday July 20, 2025 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/3RqcVPSiSfO6TwlOsIMQmg BETRAYED – Violence Against Women, invites survivors of gender-based violence to share their stories so that we can bring awareness to this issue and challenge the culture surrounding domestic violence—a culture that overwhelmingly encourages silence and shame. The […]
Live Poetry: Bree Bailey, Miriam Kramer, and Sheleen McElhinney Sunday July 20, 2025 – 2pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Bree Bailey is a queer Latina poet, a mistress of the music of inflections, pulses, and ironic chuckles. A Jersey native now in Austin, TX, she writes with heart and humor […]
Sunday July 27, 2025 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/MV1XXDyjSxm5hcwx5hpxOg Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania Edited by Marjorie Maddox & Jerry Wemple ( $27.90 Pennsylvania State University Press) Buy the book: https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/keystone-poetry-contemporary-poets-on-pennsylvania/527 From Philadelphia to Erie, and from the shale fields to the coal mines, Keystone Poetry celebrates the varied landscapes and voices of […]
Wednesday July 30, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Ryan Eckes is the author of Wrong Heaven Again, General Motors, Valu-Plus and Old News, as well as several chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Prolit, Protean Magazine, Tripwire, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. With Kim Gek Lin Short, […]
