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Live Poetry Event: Tonita Austin, Sibelan Forrester, Alison Lubar

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Live Poetry Event: Tonita Austin, Sibelan Forrester, Alison Lubar Wednesday May 18, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcudOCrpjovE9JWt5KotUx73STwYpTOT0og Tonita Austin also known as “Toni Love” is a gifted poet, singer, activist, and writer born in West Philadelphia. While attending Columbia University, […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices Spring 2022

Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices Spring 2022 Saturday May 21, 2022– 2pm EST https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcuitqTooGdwfpzt7nCg8xrIqo7F7spOJ   New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for younger poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry community and giving them the opportunity […]

Virtual Poetry Event: Omowole Jesse N. Alexander, Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III), Shakeema Smalls

Virtual Poetry Event: Omowole Jesse N. Alexander, Shakeema Smalls Sunday May 22, 2022 – 2pm Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tf-2trT4vGN0OaXwq5nWShZLwqTdgLBnJ Omowole Jesse N. Alexander is a son of Jesse, patriarch of the Alexander clan, leader, organizer, Raceman, and Maude Anna, Griot, visionary artist, poet, muse, teacher, Ancestor. He lives on Piscataway land in […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Iain Haley Pollock with Charles S. Carr

699 Ranstead Street 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM 2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series 699 Ranstead Street,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Phila. Iain Haley Pollock is the author of Ghost, Like a Place and Spit Back a Boy, winner of the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Individual poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, […]

Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Adriann “justthepen” Toombs Bautista, Chukwuma Ndulue, & Anthony Palma with Host Sean Hanrahan

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Adriann “justthepen” Toombs Bautista, Chukwuma Ndulue, & Anthony Palma with Host Sean Hanrahan   Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqd-mppjgrG9VAJ0fzl1MRGnhDhjt3notB   Adriann “Justthepen” Toombs Bautista is a mother, Grant Administrator, Playwright, Poet, Workshop Facilitator, Founder and CEO of Just The Pen, LLC, Founder of Just The Pen Foundation, […]

Live Poetry: W.D. Ehrhart and M.L. Liebler

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Wednesday January 24, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street And on Zoom: ttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodOmrqz8sEtaWMbfHtRb-xMHXESjVcrpm W. D. Ehrhart, Poet, Writer, Scholar and Teacher began writing when he was 15 years old and has been writing more or less continuously ever since. His first published work, a poem about Swarthmore College, appeared seven years later […]

Live Poetry: 27th Annual Poetry Ink

The Rotunda 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Sunday January 28, 2024 – 2pm Live at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 27th year of presenting 100 poets reading in […]

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  Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) verified over 12,600 civilian deaths as of January 2025. The war has resulted in a humanitarian crisis, as thousands of Ukrainians were internally displaced or fled abroad. From a population of 41 million, about 8 […]

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Poetry Reading by Love McTiernan, Myles Matunis, Adiah Siler

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Love McTiernan feels an obsession with the natural world and thus tends to write about clouds, trees, and Earth’s other unknown beasts. Myles Matunis work has been published by Expat Press and the Bitchin Kitsch, featured on public radio, and nominated for the Best of the Net. Adiah Siler is an east coaster through and […]

Philly Lingo: Speaking Our Tongues, Sharp and Sweet Workshop

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Come and join us in a plurilingual workshop Where all the languages in your head are welcome. We will listen to each other, share words and ideas, read and make poems. This workshop will explore the crossing of borders both linguistic and political and the spaces between, rooted in a trauma informed, anti-racist pedagogy and […]