Tag: open mic
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Live Poetry: Samantha Medina, Amanda Nicole Meadeis, and Skyler Norbury
Live Poetry: Samantha Medina, Amanda Nicole Meadeis, and Skyler Norbury Wednesday, February 26, 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street And on Zoom – Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/d9r8978JQ-CQKRC4mzSTbA Samantha Medina is a writer based in South Philadelphia. Her poetry touches on feminism and how to explore the cracks. Amanda Nicole Meadeis a poet, artist, tarot…
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Live Poetry: Kat Giordano, Carol Moog, Lester Mobley, and Tara Tamburello
Wednesday February 19 at 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s1lCXplISbCpSTMX_DE2UQ Kat Giordano was born in Philadelphia and it’s been downhill ever since. Their latest poetry collection, Thumbsucker, is out via Malarkey Books. Kat tweets at @giordkat and lives on the internet at katgiordano.com. Kat is…
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Memorial Open Mic for Sandra Turner-Barnes
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…
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‘Philadelphia Says: Women Are Voting’ Anthology Release & Reading @ Fergie’s Pub
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Philadelphia Says: Women Are Voting For the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment (the right of women to vote) Moonstone asks: What is the condition of women’s lives today? Women’s right to vote was passed in 1919, What did it accomplish? What…
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Poetry & Humor: Hannah McDonald, Scott Sigl, & Jonathon Todd @ Fergie’s Pub
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Poetry & Humor with Hannah McDonald, who has performed at The Bechdel Test fest, the National Poetry Slam, etc Scott Sigl is a musician, poet, and teacher who has performed poems, as well as haikus in Boston, Charlotte, Oakland, New York, Jonathon Todd is…
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Floyd Brown & Joe Roarty @ Fergie’s Pub
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Floyd Brown is a poet and hip-hop artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware and lives in North Philadelphia. Joe Roarty’s poetry is high octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms. Sean Lynch, Host – Open Reading Follows
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Moonstone Presents: Patrick Blagrave, Fae Aspen Gehringer & Octavia McBride-Ahebee
Patrick Blagrave is a poet from Philadelphia, currently at work on a chapbook about student loan debt. He is on the editorial board of The Painted Bride Quarterly and is the founder and editor of Prolit, a literary magazine about class, work, and money. His work can be found in Bedfellows, Apiary, and Mad House…
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Fran Baird @ Fergie’s
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday March 13, 2019 – 7pm Fran Baird Fran Baird studied with David Ignatow in the 1980s and more recently at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop with Cathy Smith Bowers, John Drury and Jamey Dunham. He was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2009 for his…
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Dagmawe Berhanu, Wilquan Davis & Taylar Enlow: New Voices, Open Reading to follow
Moonstone@The South Philadelphia Library 1700 S. Broad Street New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect Join us each month for readings by emerging poets under the age of 25. Monday February 25, 2019 – 6pm Dagmawe Berhanu is an Ethiopian-American poet from Columbus, Ohio who has been living in Philadelphia since…
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Simone Allender & Deborah Turner: This Poem’s For You, Open Reading to follow
THIS POEM’S FOR YOU featuring… Simone Allender is a bookkeeper who started writing poetry in the early 80s (long before the bookkeeping) as a way of expressing her burgeoning feminism and keeping herself sane. She continues her writings today, as a way to keep herself sane. Deborah Turner writes fiction…