Live Poetry: W. D. Ehrhart, Nathalie Anderson, and Eileen M. D'Angelo
2025-09-03 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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 poems in this most recent collection demonstrate, he is a writer who fought in Vietnam, not a Vietnam writer.
Nathalie Anderson is the author of 5 books of poetry and manages the list-serv Lit-Philly that informs about 500 members about literary events in the Philadelphia area. She has recently retired from Swarthmore College, where she taught for 39 years, and served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing.
Eileen M. D’Angelo, author of several books, is Executive Director of Mad Poets Society, coordinated over 2000 special events in the tri-state area, twice been nominated for a PA Governor’s Award in the Arts and Pushcart Prize, and was six-term President of the Board of the Philadelphia Writers Conference.
Aaren Perry Host – Open Reading Follows

Live Poetry: Mac Chandler, Tim Lynch, and Amy Saul-Zerby
2025-09-10 19:00 - 21:00
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 Lynch was awarded a 2025 Individual Artist Fellowship by Delaware Division of the Arts, poems appear in Only Poems Daily, Gather, and Villain Era, and his first screenplay earned semifinalist in the ScreenCraft Horror Competition.
Amy Saul-Zerby is author of Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds, Deep Camouflage and Choose Your Own Beginning. She edits Voicemail Poems and her poems have appeared in The Rumpus, The Chicago Review of Books, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Sean Lynch Host – Open Reading Follows
