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,” […]
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. […]
Hail to the Symptom Gloria Heffernan is the author of the poetry collection, What the Gratitude List Said to the Bucket List (forthcoming from New York Quarterly Books), and the chapbook, Some of Our Parts, (Finishing Line Press, 2018), and Hail to the Symptom. Her work has appeared in over fifty journals including Chautauqua Literary […]
Tickets to this event are SOLD OUT. Event Overview The African American Museum in Philadelphia, alongside the Moonstone Arts Center and the Scribe Video Center, is hosting a three-part event in tribute to the award-winning novelist and poet who brought forth the prominent issues on race and identity into the american literary mainstream. The event […]
Zoom Meeting ID: 818 3720 4326, Zoom Passcode: 100371, Phone: 1-646-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81837204326?pwd=VzBwOVFVZHNjckMrNzVCU1loOVBpZz09 On the Verge: Poets of the Palisades III is an anthology that consists of 80 contributors in the Tri-State who were featured over a four-year period from both series that are sponsored by the North Jersey Literary Community and hosted by Denise La Neve […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: Poets Speak Back to Hunger Featuring readers from an e-Collection of Poems from Around the World Saturday October 23, 2021 – 2pm EST https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956, Passcode: 704102 Join us as we mark the publication of a ground-breaking collection of poems that Speak Back to Hunger. Several […]
Book Release Party for John Wall Barger’s “Resurrection Fail” Featuring readings from Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Ernest Hilbert, Warren C Longmire, Glorious Piner, Luke Stromberg, hosted by Fayyaz Vellani 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Register for the Zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86880897372?pwd=WXhNc3NSREpLZnZrQnpSQmp0cDNQZz09 John Wall Barger is the author of Pain-proof Men; Hummingbird; The Book of Festus; […]
Live Book Release: Open Source by Warren C. Longmire, hosted by Sean Lynch Wednesday December 15, 2021 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlf-mgpzwpHdZZB3CAIOVCXQ-8utbL0yWr “OPEN SOURCE is a book we’ve been waiting for in Philly, from a poet who can sing its songs through smog and shame with […]
In this follow-up volume in the Black Fire—This Time series, over seventy-five poets and writers come together on the ongoing theme of "Black is Beautiful, Black is Powerful, Black is Home." Works ranging from poetry, fiction, essays, and drama cover a wide range of Black literature. This "continuum" of writing, as coined by Volume 1 […]
LIVE at Taller Puertorriqueño 2600 N 5th St, Philadelphia, PA 19133 Police killed 1,352 victims the U.S. 2023 (mappingpoliceviolence.org). On August 14, 2023 Police officer, Mark Dial shot and killed Eddie Irizarry. Philadelphia police told the media that the incident began when officers pulled over a car that was “driving erratically” and that “officers approached” […]
