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Moonstone Poetry Reading: John Wall Barger and Vasiliki Katsarou

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

Moonstone Poetry Reading: John Wall Barger and Vasiliki Katsarou Live in Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street) and on Zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqf-CrqDkvHtOlOphDch8WLjBafhP0Fgle   John Wall Barger is the author of four books of poetry: Pain-proof Men (2009); Hummingbird (2012), finalist for the Raymond Souster Award; The Book of Festus (2015), finalist for the […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Lynda V. E. Crawford, Hiram Larew, Yi Wei

Virtual Poetry Reading: Lynda V. E. Crawford, Hiram Larew, Yi Wei   Registration Required, Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkceuvrD0pHd1jEUSaAmpY03rRs76cqEjf   Lynda V. E. Crawford has lived in the US longer than her childhood home Barbados. Both ‘homes’ sway and punctuate her writing. She writes to sneak behind eyes, blow through ears, stretch voices like others dance words. Her […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: M. Nzadi Keita, Aaren Perry, Lamont B. Steptoe

Virtual Poetry Reading: M. Nzadi Keita, Aaren Perry, Lamont B. Steptoe   Friday February 25, 2022 – 7pm Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElfuGurTIvHdEhuhKG-RhSJuelsiJtkkw0   M. Nzadi Keita is the author of Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the life of Anna Murray Douglass. That book, a finalist for the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Prize, […]

Memorial Open Mic for Sandra Turner-Barnes

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

Memorial Open Mic for Sandra Turner-Barnes   Wednesday March 2, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom, Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpfumtqTgjG9wjtw-r78pDDvf43obI0URl   Join us for a memorial open mic poetry reading for Sandra Turner-Barnes Sandra Turner-Barnes of Lawnside — writer, arts administrator, and […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: International Women’s Day 2022

Virtual Poetry Reading: International Women’s Day 2022 Sunday March 6, 2022 – 2pm EST Registration Required-Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkdOGhrzMpH9w44h0epioF-_rK2dcB0-iI Readings from our new anthology, International Women’s Day 2022 “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy   Imagine a gender equal world. […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Quincy Scott Jones, Marci Blackman, Sarah Gambito, D. Nurkse, Bushra Rehman, Yolanda Wisher

Virtual Poetry Reading: Quincy Scott Jones, Marci Blackman, Sarah Gambito, D. Nurkse, Bushra Rehman, Yolanda Wisher Thursday April 21, 2022 – 7pm – VIRTUAL Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-usqjwuGteb-36iCgphT76_l9ZkiKT9   Join us for a night celebrating poetry and Quincy Scott Jones’ new-ish book How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children, a meditation […]

Virtual Poetry Event: International Worker’s Day

Virtual Poetry Event: International Worker’s Day Sunday May 1, 2022 – 2 pm -VIRTUAL – International Workers’ Day (Labor Day, May 1) Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtf–qrT0pGtX7GFWtGu2R5kGRSju8bauy   International Workers’ Day, also known as Labor Day in most countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of laborers and the […]

Remembering Thomas Kinsella

Remembering Thomas Kinsella Sunday May 8, 2022 – 2pm Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApf-GpqTwpE9QBzsJ92os8X53FdKo3E0zv   Thomas Kinsella (4 May 1928 – 22 December 2021) was an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher. He began publishing poetry in the early 1950s and, around the same time, translated early Irish poetry into English. In the […]

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 […]