Tag: poetry
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Black Poetry Day Reading – Saturday October 17, 2026, LIVE
Black Poetry Day Reading Be part of Black Poetry Day If you are black, bring your poem. If you are not, bring a poem celebrating your favorite black poet. There will be an open reading between three featured poets. Moonstone’s Black Poets Day Reading is part of Night of the Living Poets Program, an All-Styles…
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Live Poetry: Serotonin Press
Serotonin Press Reading Wednesday October 7, 2026 – 7pm Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Serotonin Press, a Philadelphia based publisher, focusing on mental illness and suicide prevention. Established as an online poetry journal, Serotonin has published hundreds of writers from dozens of countries, and an anthology of 115 writers organized into chapters on Depression, Anxiety, ADHD,…
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Virtual: Recent Chapbooks from Moonstone Press
Recent Poetry Books from Moonstone Press Readings Sunday, October 4th @ 2pm ET On Zoom, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/mF-K3tiiTjWbtTv3iDZKhw Frank’s new book is Googlet, $11.00 Frank Beltrano is a poet living in Lévis, Quebec, Canada. He is a member of the American poetry workshopping group DVP/US1 and founder of the group, Strong Threads, based in Quebec.…
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Remembering John Coltrane: Trane-ing Poetry Writing Workshop
VIRTUAL WRITING WORKSHOP| 5pm Registration Link – https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/JAj5oD1RTHKfwfapZt3Chg Trane-ing Poetry Workshop invites writers to explore the John Coltrane’s process of bring social issues to life and how that process can be applied in our own writing practce. In this online class, we dive into the creative process behind several of John Coltrane’s most famous songs,…
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Live Poetry: Michelle Myers, Therese Halscheid, Hector Reyes & Karol M. Wasylyshyn
Live Poetry: Michelle Myers, Therese Halscheid, Hector Reyes & Karol M. Wasylyshyn Wednesday, September 30th @ 7pm Fergies Pub: 1412 Sansom St. Philadelphia Michelle Myers is an award-winning poet, author, and educator whose work centers storytelling, cultural memory, and voice. A founding member of the Asian American spoken word poetry group Yellow Rage, she was…
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Freedom Rhythms
Freedom Rhythms Saturday September 12 – 2PM to 5PM Commodore Barry Arts & Cultural Center’s Program 6815 Emlen Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19119 • 215-843-8051 “THESE are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it…
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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…