Tag: poetry
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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…
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Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series: David Ebenbach
Tuesday August 5, 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 David Ebenbach, the author of collections of fiction (Between Camelots; Into the Wilderness), poetry (We Were the People Who Moved; Autogeography) and essays…
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Virtual Poetry: Tyler Dunston, Maria James-Thiaw, Miho Kinnas, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Terra Oliveira
Sunday August 3, 2025 – 2pmEDT – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q7Xq5kmfTySArIh_8ejLtg Tyler Dunston, author of Octaves, is a writer and visual artist, whose poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Hawaiʻi Pacific Review, Narrative Magazine, Raleigh Review, and other journals. Maria James-Thiaw is an award-winning poet, performer, and playwright. She is the author of three poetry books, has…
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Live Poetry: Ryan Eckes and Nycir Keen
Wednesday July 30, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Ryan Eckes is the author of Wrong Heaven Again, General Motors, Valu-Plus and Old News, as well as several chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Prolit, Protean Magazine, Tripwire, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. With Kim Gek Lin Short,…
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Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania
Sunday July 27, 2025 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/MV1XXDyjSxm5hcwx5hpxOg Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania Edited by Marjorie Maddox & Jerry Wemple ( $27.90 Pennsylvania State University Press) Buy the book: https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/keystone-poetry-contemporary-poets-on-pennsylvania/527 From Philadelphia to Erie, and from the shale fields to the coal mines, Keystone Poetry celebrates the varied landscapes and voices of…
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Virtual Reading: Betrayed: Violence Against Women
Virtual Reading: Betrayed: Violence Against Women Sunday July 20, 2025 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/3RqcVPSiSfO6TwlOsIMQmg BETRAYED – Violence Against Women, invites survivors of gender-based violence to share their stories so that we can bring awareness to this issue and challenge the culture surrounding domestic violence—a culture that overwhelmingly encourages silence and shame. The…
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29th Annual Poetry Ink: Virtual Reading
29th Annual Poetry Ink We want everyone: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 29th year of presenting 71 poets reading in alphabetical order Monday May 19, 2025 – No matter where…
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Live Poetry: Sarah Browning, W.D. Ehrhart, Jack Miller
Sarah Browning is the author of Call Me Yes, Killing Summer, and others, co-host of Wild Indigo Poetry, and teaches online with Writers in Progress. W. D. Ehrhart’s most recent books are Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems; What We Can and Can’t Afford: Essays on Vietnam, Patriotism, and American Life, and At Smedley…