Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Featuring – g emil reutter Tuesday February 6, 2024 – 6:30pm – EST – VIRTUAL Watch for free on the PhillyCAM website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. g emil reutter is a writer of poems and stories. 18 collections of his poetry and fiction have […]
Thursday February 8, 2024 – 7pm -Virtual Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrce-spj4pE9Jq0ZszDJHI7vYgFYFf19BY David Eberhardt, author of Melange, The Tree Calendar, Blue Running Lights, and Poems from the Website, was born in 1941. He retired in 2010 from 33 years of work in the criminal INjustice system at the Baltimore City jail. With Father Phil Berrigan and two […]
Freedom 2024 Anthology Reading Sunday July 14, 2024 2pm on Zoom Zoom Meeting ID 829 9128 3645 – Passcode 060433 Registration Link – https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkfuiqpjgsHtFxxxyjfTkHXjIJkgSPg2tA Freedom The United States celebrates Independence on July 4 France celebrates Bastille Day on July 14 The struggle for freedom and independence is universal. What does Freedom mean to you? […]
Tribute to Sonia Sanchez Sunday September 15th, 2024 – 2pm VIRTUAL Registration Link https://us05web.zoom.us/j/83627572456?pwd=JE0PCSxPn26WT6hBZ8aSmXHm0PqDxo.1 Happy 90th Birthday, Sonia Sonia Sanchez—poet, activist, scholar—was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University. She is the recipient of both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes […]
Moonstone Poetry presents 28th Annual Poetry Ink Reading VIRTUAL Monday, September 30th, 2024, 7pm Online via Zoom, register here: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/88202311343?pwd=02AJS9GK5vIYcvL5dLXwwa7mJARNDc.1 We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad,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, and all other forms. Join […]
Remembering Louis McKee (July 31, 1951– November 21, 2011) Sunday November 24, 2024@ 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL On Zoom, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pceChqzgjGdayBxHLCQaGDjDwjYHv85Xm Louis McKee was an American poet and a fixture of the Philadelphia poetry scene from the early 1970s. He was the author of Schuylkill County, The True Speed of Things, and fourteen other […]
Sunday December 1, 2024 @ 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL Remembering Dennis Brutus (1924 – 2009) On Zoom, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErfu-prjIiE9eezsl16I2_NXEdA45fkVSb Born in Zimbabwe, poet and human rights activist Dennis Brutus grew up in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and was educated at Fort Hare University College. He taught high school for 14 years until he was […]
Remembering T. S. Eliot Sunday January 5, 2025 2pm EST virtual Register for the Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItdOuopzkpHtZMtMmL-wsKMt33Qh3uvIr- (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright, a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through the use of language, writing style, and verse structure. Also noted for his […]
Tuesday February 4th at 6:30pm Moonstone Poetry @PhillyCAM Can be viewed for free on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. Alison Hicks was awarded the 2021 Birdy Prize from Meadowlark Press for Knowing Is a Branching Trail. Previous collections are You Who Took the Boat Out and Kiss, a […]
Virtual Reading: Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe Sunday, February 9th, 2025 2pm Eastern Virtual Register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1fJ5daTdS8elCUBV79ucyg Lamont B. Steptoe is a poet / photographer / publisher born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is author of eight books of poetry including In the Kitchens of the Master, Mad Minute, Uncle’s South Sea […]
