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 […]
Saturday March 7, 2026 – ICE OUT – LIVE READING At Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catherine Street, Philadelphia Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are acting like the Nazi German SS who were tasked with detection of potential enemies of the state, the neutralization of opposition and providing domestic and foreign intelligence. The SS […]
Wednesday March 11, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub Featuring: Eli Goldblatt, Michelle Myers, Diane Sahms, Iris Wilde, and Aaren Perry as Host Eli Goldblatt is Professor Emeritus of English at Temple University and former director of New City Writing. Michelle Myers is an award-winning poet, author, and educator whose work centers storytelling, cultural memory, and voice. […]
Wednesday March 18, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Featuring: Vincent Bush, Demetra De’Vine, William E. Heston, Matthew Klauber, and Sean Hanrahan as Host Vincent Bush is a Philadelphia-based mixed media artist and poet. Through his chosen mediums, Vincent explores healing, identity, and the power of love, often using the heart as a universal symbol that transcends […]
Wednesday April 1, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm Featuring: Peter Baroth, Courtney Bambrick, Emiliano Martin, and Liz Allen as Host Peter Baroth is a writer, artist, and musician based in the Philadelphia area. He has published a novel, Long Green and his most recent chapbook is Ski Oklahoma. , he is on the editorial […]
Wednesday April 8, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm Featuring: John Wall Barger, Mac Chandler, Ernest Hilbert, and Sean Lynch as Host John Wall Barger, author of Praise for Resurrection Pie, is a contract editor for Frontenac House, lives in Vermont, and lectures in the Writing Program at Dartmouth College. Mac Chandler is a […]
Sunday April 12, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub @ 3pm Featuring: Joseph Chelius, Lee Stockdale, Anne-Adele Wight, and Aaron Perry as Host Joseph Chelius is the author of five collections of poems and is a former Bucks County, Pennsylvania Poet. Lee Stockdale has won the United Kingdom National Poetry Prize, Montana Prize for Humor, Sidney Lanier […]
Wedsnesday April 15, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm Featuring: C.M. Crockford, Chris DeMento, John Fadely, Alison Lubar, and Sean Hanrahan as Host C.M. Crockford poems, essays, and stories have been featured in Vastarien, Nobody Magazine, Be About It Press, and The Cleveland Review of Books among many others. Chris DeMento hosts Poetry Night […]
Wednseday April 22, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm Featuring: Grace Bauer, Sean Hanrahan, Gina Myers, and Anne-Adele Wight as Host Grace Bauer has published six books of poems and co-edited the anthology Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Sean Hanrahan is author of Headless, has taught classes titled A […]
