Tag: book release

  • Live Poetry: POETRY FOR DUMMIES, Second Edition

    Live Poetry: POETRY FOR DUMMIES, Second Edition

    Live Poetry: Poetry for Dummies with John Timpane & more Wednesday, June 3rd @ 7pm ET Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia 19107   Poetry for Dummies, Second Edition, has dropped. It’s not for dummies; it’s for the same everyone poetry is for! John, former editor/writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer and a longtime face in…

  • Book Release: And If You Saw Me by Craig Czury

    Book Release: And If You Saw Me by Craig Czury

    Book Release: And If You Saw Me by Craig Czury Featuring: Craig Czury, J. C. Todd, and Olga Livshin Live at Fergies Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Craig Czury has been conducting innovative life-writing and poetry workshops in schools, shelters, prisons, psych wards, community centers, and universities for over 30 years. A native of the Wilkes-Barre…

  • Live Poetry: Julia Kolchinsky’s PARALLAX

    Live Poetry: Julia Kolchinsky’s PARALLAX

    April 12, 2025 – 7pm EDT- LIVE Live at Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine Street Join us as we celebrate the release of Julia Kolchinsky’s new book PARALLAX Julia Kolchinsky’s Parallax offers a lyrical narrative of parenting a neurodiverse child under the shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the poet’s birthplace. As her child…

  • Live Poetry: Serotonin Anthology Release Reading

    Live Poetry: Serotonin Anthology Release Reading

    Serotonin Anthology Release Reading Sunday December 29, 2024 – 2pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street On zoom –  Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdemvrTkoHNCjR-UHD_ESBLD1ayB-_vOL  Cynthia Arrieu-King was raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and earned her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. A former Kundiman Fellow, Arrieu-King is the author of the poetry chapbook The Small Anything City and…

  • Moonstone Poetry: Fatal Force: Poetic Justice

    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”…

  • Black Fire This Time @ Barnes & Noble

    In this follow-up volume in the Black Fire—This Time series, over seventy-five poets and writers come together on the ongoing theme of "Black is Beautiful, Black is Powerful, Black is Home." Works ranging from poetry, fiction, essays, and drama cover a wide range of Black literature. This "continuum" of writing, as coined by Volume 1…

  • Live Book Release: Open Source – Warren C. Longmire, with Sean Lynch

    Live Book Release: Open Source – Warren C. Longmire, with Sean Lynch

    Live Book Release: Open Source by Warren C. Longmire, hosted by Sean Lynch Wednesday December 15, 2021 – 7pm  Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlf-mgpzwpHdZZB3CAIOVCXQ-8utbL0yWr   “OPEN SOURCE is a book we’ve been waiting for in Philly, from a poet who can sing its songs through smog and shame with…

  • Book Release Party: John Wall Barger’s “Resurrection Fail” with Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Ernest Hilbert, Warren C Longmire, Glorious Piner, Luke Stromberg

    Book Release Party: John Wall Barger’s “Resurrection Fail” with Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Ernest Hilbert, Warren C Longmire, Glorious Piner, Luke Stromberg

    Book Release Party for John Wall Barger’s “Resurrection Fail” Featuring readings from Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Ernest Hilbert, Warren C Longmire, Glorious Piner, Luke Stromberg, hosted by Fayyaz Vellani 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Register for the Zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86880897372?pwd=WXhNc3NSREpLZnZrQnpSQmp0cDNQZz09   John Wall Barger is the author of Pain-proof Men; Hummingbird; The Book of Festus;…

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Poets Speak Back to Hunger

    Virtual Poetry Reading: Poets Speak Back to Hunger

    Virtual Poetry Reading: Poets Speak Back to Hunger Featuring readers from an e-Collection of Poems from Around the World   Saturday October 23, 2021 – 2pm EST https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956, Passcode: 704102   Join us as we mark the publication of a ground-breaking collection of poems that Speak Back to Hunger.  Several…

  • On the Verge: Poets of the Palisades with Dave Worrell

    On the Verge: Poets of the Palisades with Dave Worrell

    Zoom Meeting ID: 818 3720 4326, Zoom Passcode: 100371, Phone: 1-646-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81837204326?pwd=VzBwOVFVZHNjckMrNzVCU1loOVBpZz09 On the Verge: Poets of the Palisades III is an anthology that consists of 80 contributors in the Tri-State who were featured over a four-year period from both series that are sponsored by the North Jersey Literary Community and hosted by Denise La Neve…