Tag: poetry
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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…
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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,…