Tag: poetry
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Remembering Ezra Pound – Sunday November 2nd – 2pm – Virtual
Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound’s contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with developing…
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Wednesday October 15, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE
Heather Bowlan, author of Highlights and Blackouts and co-director of Philadelphia Small Works, an art gallery and performance space. Christopher K.P. Brown aka KP ULTRA is the founder of Pecola Breedlove & The Freedom Party, ran 2 Pens & Lint, under which he published chapbooks for over 400 runs Poetry215.com. His newest poetry…
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Poesía sin Fronteras: Poetry in Spanish in the United States
Poesía sin Fronteras ¿Escribes poesía en español y te gustaría publicar uno de tus poemas? ¡Este llamado es para ti! ¡Esperamos tu voz! La convocatoria a la primera edición de Poesía sin Fronteras (2025-2026) busca nuevas voces para promover la paz, la concordia y la armonía a través de la poesía. Da rienda suelta a…
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Live Poetry and Music
Wednesday October 1, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE – Poetry & Music Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Launch of A Little Music For the Soft War by Mark Svenvold Poet, songwriter, and nonfiction writer, Mark Svenvold’s book of poems, Soul Data, won the Vassar Miller Award, selected by Heather McHugh; Empire Burlesque, won The…
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Live Poetry: Camille Llawella Ralphs, Ernest Hilbert
Sunday September 28, 2025 – 5pmEDT – LIVE Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Camille Llawella Ralphs is an English poet, critic and editor. Ralphs’ first collection of poems After You Were, I Am was a book of the year in The Telegraph and The Guardian, and was widely reviewed elsewhere.Since 2020, Ralphs has been poetry…
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Live Poetry: Mac Chandler, Tim Lynch, and Amy Saul-Zerby
Wednesday September 10, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Mac Chandler is a writer from West Philly who has been published in some places and not in others, host quarterly shows for Moonstone Arts, and is author of There Is A Thing Haunting Me I Could Grow To Love. Tim…
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Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series: Alicia Askenase
Tuesday September 9, 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 Alicia Askenase is the author of several books, was a founding co-editor of the literary journal 6ix and director of the Walt Whitman…
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Live Poetry: W. D. Ehrhart, Nathalie Anderson, and Eileen M. D’Angelo
Wednesday September 3, 2025 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Book Launch of Smart Fish Don’t Bite by W. D. Ehrhart ($22 – Moonstone Press) W. D. Ehrhart, author of Smart Fish Don’t Bite, is a Marine Corps veteran of both the Vietnam War and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. As the…
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Live Poetry: Shaina Clingempeel, Jacqueline Jewell, Warren C. Longmire, and Lynda Gene Rymond
Wednesday August 13, 2025 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Shaina Clingempeel, author of in the homes that house my history, is a Philly-based poet and the owner of a small book editing business (Cypress Editorial) and literary magazine (Cypress Review). Her poems can be found in Coffin Bell, The Passionfruit Review,…
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Live Poetry: George Marshall and Sophia Tempest
Wednesday August 27, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street George Marshall is a writer out of Omaha, Nebraska. He went to school for Nonfiction and works as a freelance writer and bartender. Poetry was where he found his love for writing. Outside of writing he spends time taking toilets apart…