Tag: poetry
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House Poet Presents: Juniper Danger & Thalia Geiger
House Poet Presents: Juniper Danger & Thalia Geiger Wednesday July 29, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Juniper Danger is a Philly based queer poet and science teacher. She loves filling her house with people and those people with soup. You can find her work in Collide Zine and…
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Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Nycir Keen, & Charles O’Hay
Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Nycir Keen, & Charles O’Hay Wednesday July 22, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Jane-Rebecca Cannarella is the author of Better Bones and Marrow; as well as an editor at HOOT Review, a former genre editor at Lunch Ticket, and a sometimes contributor at SSG…
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Live Poetry: Jessica Buten, Caroline Furr, Ben Saff, Abby Minor & Amy Thatcher
Live Poetry: Jessica Buten, Caroline Furr, Ben Saff, Abby Minor & Amy Thatcher Wednesday July 15, 2026 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Jessica Buten is a poet from Bucks County. Caroline Furr has a decades long history in painting, sculpture, interior and surface design, gallery and museum work. At this less…
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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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Freedom 250? – Virtual Poetry Event
The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of other civil liberties. However, in recent years its democratic institutions have suffered erosion, as reflected in rising political polarization and extremism, partisan pressure on…
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Live Poetry: Indran Amirthanayagam, Claudia Gary & Mike Jurkovic
Live Poetry: Indran Amirthanayagam, Claudia Gary & Mike Jurkovic Wednesday July 8, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street 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.…
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Live Poetry: Vasiliki Argyris & William Lessard
Vasiliki Argyris looks for the threads that bind history, poetry, and walking the earth. Her work can be found in Voicemail Poems, Pamphilet, and Works & Days. William Lessard writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, and others, he is the Poetry & Hybrids editor at Heavy Feather Review.
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Live Poetry: Dan Kraines, Amy Saul-Zerby, & Rocky Wilson
Live Poetry: Dan Kraines, Amy Saul-Zerby & Rocky Wilson Wednesday, June 10th @ 7pm Live at Fergies Pub Dan Kraines is a queer poet of Viennese, Bolivian, and Ukrainian heritage. Strap is his first full length book. Dan works at the writers residency Hawthornden Brooklyn on weekends, and for the poet Sharon Olds during the week. ” Dan…
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Live Broadcast: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Presents Diane Sahms
Diane Sahms is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently,– of an octopus: an archite|x| tural awareness of words. She was awarded first place in Judith Stark’s Poetry Contest; Partisan Press’s Working People’s Poetry Contest; and recieved a poetry grant from AEVentures Foundation. Published in North American Review, Northern Virginia Review, Brushfire Literature & Arts…