Can be viewed on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. James Feichthaler is a poet with roots in the Philadelphia-area residing in Trenton, NJ, where he watches the skies for UFOs, sings Irish folk songs on his porch, and drinks beers. He was the host of an open mic […]
LIVE at Taller Puertorriqueño 2600 N 5th St, Philadelphia, PA 19133 Police killed 1,352 victims the U.S. 2023 (mappingpoliceviolence.org). On August 14, 2023 Police officer, Mark Dial shot and killed Eddie Irizarry. Philadelphia police told the media that the incident began when officers pulled over a car that was “driving erratically” and that “officers approached” […]
Wednesday August 24, 2024 – 3:30pm Live at at Barnes & Noble, 1708 Chestnut Street Julia Kolchinsky Dashbach is the author of 40 WEEKS, Don’t Touch the Bones, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize, and The Many Names for Mother, winner the Wick Poetry Prize and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is […]
Tuesday September 3, 2024 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Can be viewed on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. “Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon has been a force in the spoken word/poetry scene for decades. This new release (You Gotta Have Game) from Boyer College of Music and Dance is Williams-Witherspoon […]
VIRTUAL EVENT Meeting Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkd-6srTItHNIPpFXO_9kEzg40jpTJAkA8 Seventy-five years ago, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in response to the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. The first document of its kind, developed by people from diverse backgrounds from around the world, declares that “all human beings are born free […]
For Zoom, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtdumgqDsuGdAWcqR8ZcE1s8-QCdemDt6n Ernest Hilbert it the author of the poetry collections Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan—selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize—Last One Out, and Storm Swimmer, selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as the winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com Dennis […]
Tuesday May 6, 2025 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast On the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 – Philly Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series David Kertis, author of Word of the Day. was born in 1955 and grew up in northern New Jersey. He attended Oberlin College where he studied […]
Wednesday May 7, 2025 — 7:00 pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Grace Bauer is a Philadelphia-based poet who has published six books of poems—most recently Unholy Heart: New and Selected Poems (Backwaters Press). Marjorie Maddox is a Professor of English at Lock Haven University as well as an author who […]
Sarah Browning is the author of Call Me Yes, Killing Summer, and others, co-host of Wild Indigo Poetry, and teaches online with Writers in Progress. W. D. Ehrhart’s most recent books are Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems; What We Can and Can’t Afford: Essays on Vietnam, Patriotism, and American Life, and At Smedley […]
Sunday September 14, 2025 – 5pm – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YGL0FkWeS5WHQX54GffCZQ Honoring Evan Wang and the Youth Poet Laureate Programs Host – Joanne Leva is founder and executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and founder and editor-in-chief of Tekpoet, an online poetry manuscript services company. Leva’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, […]
