Tag: poetry
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Live Poetry Reading: Grady Chambers, Lynne Shapiro
Live Poetry Reading: Grady Chambers, Lynne Shapiro Wednesday May 25, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdeuopjMiGdy_NWWqt0nufO2NwbPVx Grady Chambers is the author of North American Stadiums (Milkweed Editions, 2018). His poems have recently appeared in The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares,…
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Virtual Poetry Event: Omowole Jesse N. Alexander, Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III), Shakeema Smalls
Virtual Poetry Event: Omowole Jesse N. Alexander, Shakeema Smalls Sunday May 22, 2022 – 2pm Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tf-2trT4vGN0OaXwq5nWShZLwqTdgLBnJ Omowole Jesse N. Alexander is a son of Jesse, patriarch of the Alexander clan, leader, organizer, Raceman, and Maude Anna, Griot, visionary artist, poet, muse, teacher, Ancestor. He lives on Piscataway land in…
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Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices Spring 2022
Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices Spring 2022 Saturday May 21, 2022– 2pm EST https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcuitqTooGdwfpzt7nCg8xrIqo7F7spOJ New Voices: Philadelphia’s 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…
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Live Poetry Event: Tonita Austin, Sibelan Forrester, Alison Lubar
Live Poetry Event: Tonita Austin, Sibelan Forrester, Alison Lubar Wednesday May 18, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcudOCrpjovE9JWt5KotUx73STwYpTOT0og Tonita Austin also known as “Toni Love” is a gifted poet, singer, activist, and writer born in West Philadelphia. While attending Columbia University,…
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Jazz and Finnegans Wake: Jam Session
Jazz and Finnegans Wake: Jam Session Sunday May 15, 2022 – 5 pm Live at Fergie’s Pub & Online 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqceusqj8jHNTEJbA47-4Q57xV7jsy66bq Come witness the Jazz Experiment of the Ages! Horns and Drums and Arms and Lungs will be Jamming the Lyrical, Witty,…
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Remembering Thomas Kinsella
Remembering Thomas Kinsella Sunday May 8, 2022 – 2pm Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApf-GpqTwpE9QBzsJ92os8X53FdKo3E0zv Thomas Kinsella (4 May 1928 – 22 December 2021) was an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher. He began publishing poetry in the early 1950s and, around the same time, translated early Irish poetry into English. In the…
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Live Poetry Reading: Jacob L. Camacho, Gina Myers, Ryan Eckes
Live Poetry Reading: Jacob L. Camacho, Gina Myers, Ryan Eckes Wednesday May 4, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrf-uorzosHdZJNPRXR3kPUT25I8ohQknW Jacob L. Camacho is a CHamoru writer, educator, and activist born and raised in Guahan (Guam), of Islas Marianas. He received…
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Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Katie Ford
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Katie Ford Tuesday May 3, 2022, 6:30pm – VIRTUAL 699 Ranstead Street Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. 2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Katie Ford is the author of four books of poems: Deposition; Colosseum; Blood Lyrics; and If You Have to Go. Blood…
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Live Poetry Reading: W.D. Ehrhart, Lynn Levin, Amber Renee
Live Poetry Reading: W.D. Ehrhart, Lynn Levin, Amber Renee 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucuCgqzIuH9yFuMAp-FO6iL9rBOqligPl D. Ehrhart began writing when he was 15 years old and has been writing ever since. Eight of his poems were included in Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans…
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Live Poetry Reading: Alicia Askenase, Julia Blumenreich
Live Poetry Reading: Alicia Askenase, Julia Blumenreich Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudOqpqT8oEt0RnjqPfwJgqoS46VZuKs6W Alicia Askenase is the author of The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press) and Shirley Shirley (sonaweb) and a few chaplets. She was a co-founding editor of the literary journal 6ix,…