Wednesday August 13, 2025 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Shaina Clingempeel, author of in the homes that house my history, is a Philly-based poet and the owner of a small book editing business (Cypress Editorial) and literary magazine (Cypress Review). Her poems can be found in Coffin Bell, The Passionfruit Review, […]
Wednesday August 20, 2025 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Sydney Coffin is halfway done an MFA with NYU in Paris, and taught poetry, English, journalism, wrestling and experiential arts in Philadelphia’s public schools for 20 years, English Language Learning at Job Corps, and recently became the night manager of facilities for […]
Wednesday August 27, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street George Marshall is a writer out of Omaha, Nebraska. He went to school for Nonfiction and works as a freelance writer and bartender. Poetry was where he found his love for writing. Outside of writing he spends time taking toilets apart […]
Wednesday September 3, 2025 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Book Launch of Smart Fish Don’t Bite by W. D. Ehrhart ($22 – Moonstone Press) W. D. Ehrhart, author of Smart Fish Don’t Bite, is a Marine Corps veteran of both the Vietnam War and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. As the […]
Wednesday September 10, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Mac Chandler is a writer from West Philly who has been published in some places and not in others, host quarterly shows for Moonstone Arts, and is author of There Is A Thing Haunting Me I Could Grow To Love. Tim […]
“In Headless, poet Sean Hanrahan takes us on a winding road that twists through desire, intellectual curiosity, and various explored icons—pop culture, mythic, historic, political, sexual—traveling with a speaker always seeking to understand who and what society expects him to be. If art is a conversation with everything before and after, then so is identity, […]
“In flashes of recollection, in flares of supposition and speculation, the fragments and fables of Ditta Baron Hoeber’s Without You trace the aftermath of a childhood trauma, with its attendant guilts and resentments and mystifications. Terse, taut, gnomic, wrenching, and subtly evocative, Without You offers a compelling demonstration of a reality at once irrecoverable and […]
February 18, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub Featuring: Alison Hicks, Chloe Yelena Miller, David J. Schast, Laura Tanenbaum and Sean Hanrahan as the host. Alison Hicks’ fourth collection of poems is Homing. Previous collections are You Who Took the Boat Out and Kiss, and chapbook Falling Dreams. Her work has appeared in Gargoyle, Permafrost, and Poet Lore. She is founder of […]
February 25, 2026 – Live at Fergies Featuring: Blaithin Simpson, Julien Smith, and Mac Chandler as host. Blaithin Simpson is a 22 year old writer who focuses on projecting inner thoughts in abstract ways. She is currently studying creative writing at The New School. Julien Smith (he/they) is primarily a fiction writer who dabbles in nonfiction […]
Wednesday March 4, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub Featuring: Jo Piazza, Christina Rosso-Schneider, and Julianna Forlano as Host Jo Piazza is an international bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and podcast creator known for 12+ books, including The Sicilian Inheritance and We Are Not Like Them. She hosts the critically acclaimed podcast Under the Influence. Her work […]
