Sunday May 4, 2025 – VIRTUAL – World Press Freedom Day The United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day, observed to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to […]
Tuesday May 6, 2025 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast On the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 – Philly Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series David Kertis, author of Word of the Day. was born in 1955 and grew up in northern New Jersey. He attended Oberlin College where he studied […]
Wednesday May 7, 2025 — 7:00 pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Grace Bauer is a Philadelphia-based poet who has published six books of poems—most recently Unholy Heart: New and Selected Poems (Backwaters Press). Marjorie Maddox is a Professor of English at Lock Haven University as well as an author who […]
Sunday May 11, 2025 – 2:00 pm – VIRTUAL On Zoom – 2024 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/VJprZxhkRxGtL6tgxl7bkA First Prize – Partridge Boswell, author of Heckler, poems appear in Poetry, American Poetry Review and Poetry Ireland Review. Co-founder of Bookstock Literary Festival, he troubadours widely with the poetry/music group Los Lorcas Honorable Mentions Shaina Clingempeel, author of in […]
Sarah Browning is the author of Call Me Yes, Killing Summer, and others, co-host of Wild Indigo Poetry, and teaches online with Writers in Progress. W. D. Ehrhart’s most recent books are Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems; What We Can and Can’t Afford: Essays on Vietnam, Patriotism, and American Life, and At Smedley […]
New Voices: Spring 2025 A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. A bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities. Join us as contributors read their poems Thursday May 15th, 2025 – If you live near Philadelphia please join us live LIVE at 5:30 EDT – […]
New Voices: Spring 2025 A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. A bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities. Join us as contributors read their poems Saturday May 17th, 2025 – No matter where you live, please join us virtually VIRTUAL at 2pm EDT on […]
29th Annual Poetry Ink We want everyone: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 29th year of presenting 71 poets reading in alphabetical order Sunday May 18, 2025 – If you live […]
29th Annual Poetry Ink We want everyone: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 29th year of presenting 71 poets reading in alphabetical order Monday May 19, 2025 – No matter where […]
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) verified over 12,600 civilian deaths as of January 2025. The war has resulted in a humanitarian crisis, as thousands of Ukrainians were internally displaced or fled abroad. From a population of 41 million, about 8 […]
Jane-Rebecca Cannarella is a writer and editor living in West Philadelphia. She edits HOOT Review, a magazine published on postcards, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, a broadside press, and was an editor for Lunch Ticket from 2015 to 2017. Krystle Griffin is an Aquarian alien who emerged from the depths of the Delaware River. […]
Love McTiernan feels an obsession with the natural world and thus tends to write about clouds, trees, and Earth’s other unknown beasts. Myles Matunis work has been published by Expat Press and the Bitchin Kitsch, featured on public radio, and nominated for the Best of the Net. Adiah Siler is an east coaster through and […]
