Sylvia Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in […]

No River Twice creates interactive poetry readings where audiences and a group of poets actively determine the direction of the reading, poem by poem, beginning to end, creating readings that are never the same twice. And then we make a poem of it. Jump in!  More information about us at www.norivertwice.org

Chad Frame is the author of Little Black Book, Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program, a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, PA, Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo, and founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work has appeared in Rattle, Pedestal, Barrelhouse, Rust+Moth, and elsewhere, including on iTunes from the Library of Congress, and was sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Project.

Joanne Leva, an advocate for creative writing and community service, is the founder and executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program (MCPL) and author of the poetry collections Eve Would Know  and Eve Heads Back.

Hayden Saunier is the author of five books of poetry and her most recent is A Cartography of Home.  Her work has won a Pushcart Prize, Rattle Poetry Prize, and Pablo Neruda Award and has been published in journals such as Plume, 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pedestal, Thrush, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She is the founder and director of No River Twice. 

Special Guests:

Charles Carr of Philadelphia has two published books of poems, paradise,pennsylvania and Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems. Charles has been active in the Philadelphia poetry community for 20 years and he hosted a Moonstone Arts Center Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub for 5 years and is currently the host of a live monthly broadcast Philly Loves Poetry now in its seventh season.  Eat This Poem, a Chapbook of Charles’s poems published by Moonstone Arts, will be released in November.  Proceeds from the sales of the chapbook will go to Ukraine Trust Chain.

Ona Gritz’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Bellevue Literary Review, River Teeth, Catamaran Literary Reader, One Art, and have been widely anthologized. Her poetry collection Geode was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Everywhere I Look, Ona’s memoir, will be on March 12, 2024. She also has two verse novels for teens forthcoming. Recent honors include two Notable mentions in The Best American Essays, a Best Life Story in Salon, and a winning entry in The Poetry Archive Now: Wordview 2020 project.

Anna Prader and Jonathan Todd
Wednesday November 8, 2023
Live at Fergie’s Pub @1214 Sansom St. 

1214 Sansom Street and on zoom

On Zoom (Registration required):

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Anna Prader lives and writes in Philadelphia with her three children. She believes in poetry that betrays codes of social decency and tells the truth instead. She works in harm reduction and peer support, and she would like to take a nap.

Jonathan Todd is a poet/musician/Buddhist/anarchist and generally confused individual. His poems attempt to find moments between and within labor, fusing ideas about emptiness, collectivity, and absurdity. His work has been featured in Prolit and Protean Magazine among others.

Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Tuesday, November 14, 6:30 PM EDT VIRTUAL: Can be viewed on the PhillyCAM website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia  Michael Miller is a Spoken Word Artist/Poet who has served 8 years in the Maine Corps and 7 years in the Army/ Army National Guard. […]

Erica Abbott, Adriann “Justthepen” Toombs Bautista, Kate Carey, Anne-Adele Wight, & John Wojtowicz Wednesday, November 15 @ 7PM Live @ Fergie’s Pub: 1214 Sansom St. & on Zoom Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucO2gqj0qEtDvbu6-vUf_fJNvAwVhOMaS Erica Abbott (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based poet and writer whose work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Stone Circle Review, Shō Poetry Journal, […]

Wednesday November 22, 2023 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pf-qsrDgqHddl-HC4vUoC0r-JRYbaeol6 Savannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an artist book, Not Fit For Print: Forthcoming Titles (Waterhouse Ltd Press, 2018) and poems in publications like the Moonstone anthologies, Whirlwind Magazine, Bomb Magazine, and Cul-de-sac […]

Wednesday, November 29 — 7PM LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub & on Zoom Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrcumpqD4sG9xoEzReApFvVfqvS36PY7KL Jim Cory published his first poem 50 years ago. His most recent publications are Birds & Buildings, Wipers Float In The Neck Of The Reservoir and 25 Short Poems Recent essays include “What makes a queen a queen?” in the Gay & […]