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Whitman and Sexuality – 2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCam

PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us. Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia.   David Acosta is the Artistic Director of Casa De Duende. His poetry has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies.  Among the most notable are […]

Moonstone Presents: Sean Lynch, Joseph Rathgeber, Lamont B. Steptoe

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Sean Lynch is a leftist poet and editor who lives in South Philly.  His poems have been published in various journals and he is the author of four chapbooks.     Joseph Rathgeber is an author and poet from New Jersey. He is author of Mixedbloods and The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R. and Other Stories.   […]

Remembering Walt Whitman

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Walt Whitman was born 200 years ago (May 31, 1819), his life coincided with a time of great division in America—the Civil War. Whitman eulogized the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in “O Captain! My Captain!”, a moment in history marked by hatred and bloodshed. His poem “The Wound Dresser” described the job of a first […]

Moonstone Presents: Michael R. Brown, W. D. Ehrhart

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Michael R. Brown has five books of poetry and has performed poetry, taught classes, and lectured in various world venues from the Stockholm to South Korea. Instrumental in bringing the poetry slam to New England, he created both the Cantab weekly series and the theatrical show Dr. Brown’s Traveling Poetry Circus.   W. D. Ehrhart […]

Moonstone Presents: Julia Blumenreich, Charles Carr

Shakespeare and Co. 1632 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, United States

Julia Blumenreich is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council grant for her poetry and was a finalist for the 2016 Brittany Noakes Poetry Award.  In 2012, she collaborated with the visual artist, Wendy Osterweil, on ‘Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott’ a poetry/sculptural installation/print show at The Painted Bride Art Center.   Charles Carr […]

New Voices 2: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets

Shakespeare and Co. 1632 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, United States

Our second anthology of poets under 25 drawn from the readers at our monthly poetry reading and submissions to the book. Contributors will be reading their poems and the book will be for sale to the public. Krissan, Host – Open Reading Follows

Philadelphia Says: On War and Peace

The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This Anthology centers its focus on the aspects of War and Peace, and how it has evolved alongside technology and ideology. Contributors will be reading their poems.The anthology will be for sale to the public. In Tandem With: Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans who Opposed the War Featuring: Kenneth Campbell, Marine combat […]

Cynthia Dewi Oka and Eleanor Wilner

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage: Poems and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water. Her work has appeared in ESPNW, Hyperallergic, Guernica, Scoundrel Time, Academy of American Poets, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. Eleanor Wilner will be reading from her new collection, Before Our Eyes: […]

A Conversation Between Theodore Harris and Warren Longmire

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Theodore A. Harris is a collagist, poet, and has co-authored books with Amiri Baraka, Our Flesh of Flames, and Malcolm X as Ideology, with Fred Moten, i ran from it and was still in it and TRIPTYCH: Text by Amiri Baraka and Jack Hirschman. Our Flesh of Flames “Posed against an eerily iridescent orange sky,” […]

Frolic and Detour – Book Release

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Though Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon’s thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and humanity to the chickadee, the house wren, the deaths of Leonard Cohen and C. […]