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

  RuNett Nia Ebo, Poet of Purpose, has been writing poetry since age 10 and she is five decades past that now. Best known for her signature poems, What Did You Make Roaches Fo,’ raps called Look What We Did, Part 1 and 2 and the infamous Lord Why Did You Make Me Black.   […]

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Devin Cohen & Marion Deutsche Cohen

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

Alien Architect/Cohen Asher/Devin A. Cohen is a multidisciplinary artist, working with music, visual arts, and poetry. He has published the experimental hip hop album Arteriaand and  All Praises, the first part of his seven part book journey entitled Remnants, which chronicles his words from his records, poems, and else wheres   Marion Deutsche Cohen’s latest […]

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Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Ryan Eckes, Melissa DeGezelle, and Sean Lynch

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

Ryan Eckes is a poet who lives in South Philadelphia and recently finished writing a book called General Motors about labor and the influence of public and private transportation on city life. Melissa DeGezelle has worked as an adjunct in the Intellectual Heritage Program since 2010. Beyond teaching, she is a poet, a birth doula, an activist, […]

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Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Ona Gritz and Daniel Simpson

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

Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems by Ona Gritz & Daniel Simpson ($14.99, August 2017) The poems in Border Songs offer more than a conversation between poets: they’re conversant, knowledgeable, informed by eros, loss, delight, curiosity, and intimate wisdom. This collection stays long after you’ve stopped reading to meditate alone about body and soul. –Stephen Kuusisto Ona Gritz’s first […]

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Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Richard Bank, Ryan Eckes, and Al Tacconelli

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

Richard Bank’s poetry has appeared in numerous small press poetry journals. He has conducted a poetry reading series for the Mad Poets Society in the Philadelphia area. Bank has conducted Continuing Legal Education courses on jury techniques, and serves as an adjunct professor at Villanova Law School. Ryan Eckes’ narrative-driven poetry is, in his words, “a possible form […]

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