Tag: poetry
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Live Poetry – John Amen & Amy Small-McKinney
Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub John Amen is the author of five collections of poetry, including Dark Souvenirs and Illusion of an Overwhelm, recipient of the 2021 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, he founded and is managing editor of Pedestal Magazine. Amy Small-McKinney was the Montgomery County Poet Laureate. She is author of Walking Toward Cranes (won the…
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Live Poetry – New Voices Spring 2024
Live Poetry at Parkway Central Library and on Zoom New Voices Spring 2024: Emerging Poets is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for younger poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry community and giving them the opportunity to share their work with…
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Virtual Poetry – New Voices Spring 2024
Virtual Poetry on Zoom New Voices Spring 2024: Emerging Poets is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for younger poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry community and giving them the opportunity to share their work with a wider audience. Join us…
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Book Release – James Feichthaler – Live Poetry
Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom Join us in celebrating the release of poet James Feichthaler’s new book From the Back Porch of a War (Parnilis Media). A short reading will be followed by a book signing. James Feichthaler is a poet with roots in the Philadelphia-area residing in Trenton, NJ, where he…
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Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCam: Ahmad Almallah, Huda Fakhreddine
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 Ahmad Almallah is a poet from Palestine and an artist-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Border Wisdom and Bitter. Huda Fakhreddine’s work focuses on modernist movements or…
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Virtual Poetry: 2024 Chapbook Reading Contest
Join us for Virtual Poetry on Zoom! Guy D’Annolfo, winner, poems have been published by Mantis (2024), Schuylkill Valley Journal (2023), Paperbark (2023), and Chestnut Review (2022). When not at work, or kindling a love of Natural History with his son, or accidentally disrupting peace in a Satipaṭṭhāna class, he’s likely to be found reading…
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Live Poetry: Save Chinatown Anthology Reading
Join us for Live Poetry at Independence Library and on Zoom! For 150 years, Philadelphia’s Chinatown has been the cultural heart of Philly’s Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, and our community is worth fighting for. Chinatown has been the place where we share community, culture, and language. It is where generations of immigrants have…
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Live Poetry: Warren C. Longmire, Kirwya Sutherland
Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Warren C. Longmire, author of Bird/Diz, is an uncle, writer, performer and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and mix_lit. Kirwyn Sutherland makes poems centering the black experience in America,…
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Virtual Poetry: International Haiku Day
International Haiku Poetry Day (April 17) was started in 2007 and later taken on by The Haiku Foundation in celebration of National Poetry Month. According to The Haiku Foundation, the haiku is an ancient and undefinable-in-English form of Japanese poetry. At its most basic, it is three lines, the first with five syllables, the second…
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Live Poetry: Matt Lake, Jon Lawrence, Hannah McDonald
Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Matt Lake is frankly baffled, he began writing and editing books about folklore, monsters, and dark history–including his best-known book Weird Pennsylvania. Jon Lawrence poetry and reviews have been published in Newfound, American Writers Review, The Bangalore Review, and others. Hannah McDonald is a writer,…