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 […]
The Beast in the Pines: A Horror Novel – Launch Party Wednesday June 11, 2025 – 7pm Live at Ferge’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street In October of 2003, a 19 year old named Cody considers joining the Army to fight in the Iraq War so that he can escape the boredom of small town Woodville, […]
Virtual Reading: Remembering William Butler Yeats Sunday, June 15, 2025 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL Register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/30Xa0KKUQuqq-mApWGpv7Q An Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later […]
Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania Tuesday June 17, 2025 – 5:30pm Parkway Central Free Library, 1901 Vine Street Edited by Marjorie Maddox & Jerry Wemple From Philadelphia to Erie, and from the shale fields to the coal mines, Keystone Poetry celebrates the varied landscapes and voices of Pennsylvania. This collection brings together the work […]
