Tag: Philadelphia
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Painting in the Dark: An Artistic Collaboration
Saturday, July 11th, 2026 – 4 to 7 pm City Arts Salon, 5838 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144 Painting in the Dark interrogates the hideousness of war, addiction, and delusion with the consolation concluding poet John Lavin’s final poem, –but that’s all we have is each other. Illustrators Gregorio Torres, III and Janelle Robinson have…
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Live Poetry: Indran Amirthanayagam, Claudia Gary, & Mike Jurkovic
Wednesday July 8, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE Indran Amirthanayagam is a poet, editor, publisher, translator, youtube host and diplomat. He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole and is the author of 30 books and translations. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly, writes a weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento;…
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Sunday April 19, 2026 – Haiku Poetry Day – Virtual
Sunday April 19, 2026 – Haiku Poetry Day – Virtual Register Here: Haiku Poetry Day Virtual Reading National Haiku Day, an initiative of the Haiku Foundation, celebrates the art form every April 17th. A haiku is an ancient form of Japanese poetry that consists of three lines with the sentence structure ”five-seven-five”- although this is…
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Sunday March 22, 2026 – World Poetry Day – Virtual
Sunday March 22, 2026 World Poetry Day – Virtual Register Here: World Poetry Day – Virtual World Poetry Day is celebrated on March 21st, and was declared by UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) in 1999, ”with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages…
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Live Broadcast: Grady Chambers
Tuesday April 8, 2025 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Grady Chambers is the author of the novel Great Disasters and the poetry collection North American Stadiums, selected by Henri Cole as the…
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Live Broadcast: Nathalie Anderson
Tuesday March 11th, 2025 at 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCam Can be viewed on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Nathalie Anderson’s books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound. …
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Live Poetry: Robert Coles, Alison Hicks, and Roland Leander Williams
Live Poetry: Robert Coles, Alison Hicks, and Roland Leander Williams Wednesday February 12, 2025 – 7:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street For Zoom, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4vYhPZXETFGJrideJAk8-Q#/registration Robert Coles has published over one hundred poems in various journals, anthologies, and magazines. Alison Hicks was finalist for the 2021 Beullah Rose prize from Smartis Pace, and…
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The Moonstone Hosts 2024 Read
The Moonstone Hosts 2024 Read: Live Poetry @ Fergies Pub And on Zoom, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlfuCurDksGdR2-uQW3lE4O8D8JI2H4c4P#/registration Moonstone presents about 100 poetry readings and publishes 35 books a year. We have numerous hosts representing various communities in a attempt to get you to listen to someone you never heard of. Nothing gives me more pleasure than…
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Poetry Reading: Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Finalists
Moonstone Arts Center and the Literature Department of The Free Liberty of Philadelphia Present: Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Finalists The Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Program is designed to award a young poet (14-18) the title of Youth Poet Laureate who is well versed in poetic expression, exemplifies a deep understanding of poetic language,…
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Live Poetry: Nathalie Anderson, Steve Burke, Cassie MacDonald
Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Nathalie Anderson, author of Rough, Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and Held and Firmly Bound, collaborated in with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America. Anderson’s poems have appeared in many journals, manages the list-serv Lit-Philly. Steve Burke…