Live Poetry: Herman Beavers, Anisha Bhat, Steve Burke, and Octavia McBride-Ahebee Wednesday January 14, 2026 – 7pm Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Herman Beavers is an African American writer and the author of The Vernell Poems and Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Beavers’s honors include the Charles Ludwig Distinguished […]
Live Poetry: E. Lynn Alexander, Holiday Noel Campanella, Shannon Frost Greenstein & C.L. Liedekev Wednesday, January 21st at 7pm Live at Fergies Pub: 1214 Sansom St. E. Lynn Alexander is an artist, poet, maker of unlikely things from other things, independent publisher, and cemetery walker. She cohosts The Friday Collapse reading series and has a […]
House Poet #27: Dead Presidents Club Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at 7 p.m. at Fergie’s Pub. featuring: Von Wise, Blake Melvine and resident DJ Donald Khaleel Mason Von Wise received his MFA for Creative Writing from Florida International University and is the author of Grow a Cowboy, winner of the 2025 Beyond Words Poetry Chapbook Awards. […]
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 […]
