Tag: poetry
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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…
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Live Poetry: Sydney Coffin, Raina J. León, and Genevieve Rand
Wednesday August 20, 2025 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Sydney Coffin is halfway done an MFA with NYU in Paris, and taught poetry, English, journalism, wrestling and experiential arts in Philadelphia’s public schools for 20 years, English Language Learning at Job Corps, and recently became the night manager of facilities for…
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Virtual Poetry: Julia Bouwsma, Hiram Larew, Peter E. Murphy, and Scott W. Williams
Sunday August 17, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s2XRWbF_Q2C7hQaK6Bf0PQ Julia Bouwsma lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine where she works as a poet, homesteader, editor, teacher, and small-town librarian. She is Maine’s sixth Poet Laureate and is the author of Death Fluorescence, Midden, and Work by Bloodlight. Bouwsma’s honors include a 2024…
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Live Poetry: Phoebe Brown, Courtney LeBlanc, and Sean W. Lynch
Wednesday August 6, 2025 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Phoebe Brown is a poet recently published by Anthropocene Poetry, in “Impossible Task” with Another New Calligraphy, Hog River Press, and Moonstone Arts Center. Courtney LeBlanc is the Arlington County Poet Laureate, founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent…