Wednesday July 30, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Ryan Eckes is the author of Wrong Heaven Again, General Motors, Valu-Plus and Old News, as well as several chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Prolit, Protean Magazine, Tripwire, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. With Kim Gek Lin Short, […]
Wednesday August 6, 2025 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Phoebe Brown is a poet recently published by Anthropocene Poetry, in “Impossible Task” with Another New Calligraphy, Hog River Press, and Moonstone Arts Center. Courtney LeBlanc is the Arlington County Poet Laureate, founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent […]
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 […]
Wednesday October 8, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Sueno Restaurant, 114 S. 12th Street Alicia Askenase is the author of several books, was a founding co-editor of the literary journal 6ix, and director of the Walt Whitman Art Center Literary programs for many years. Her poetry has appeared in various journals. Cassie MacDonald […]
House Poet: Beyond the Grave with Nicole Coladonato & Rachel Eve Wednesday, October 29th at 7pm Live at Fergies Pub, 1214 Sansom St. Nicole Coladonato @fouronefivetwo began performing in her youth and quickly developed an affection for the spotlight. She quit being a failed visual artist to become a writer, embracing this new path with […]
“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, […]
