Tag: poetry
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Live Poetry: The Hosts of Other Series Read
Wednesday March 26, 2025 – 7:00pm – The Hosts of Other Series Read Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/RcZsDsGjRYmxq7LxQ_YDkQ Sibelan Forrester is a poet, translator, and host since 2016 of the Mad Poets Society First Wednesday poetry reading series. Raina J. León, co-host of Wild…
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World Poetry Day Reading
Sunday March 23, 2025 – 2pmEST – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/LqG9LovqQnCdUxVCaQ1PHg3/26/2025 World Poetry Day Reading – The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) founded this day in 1999. Poetry uses rhythms and imagery to elicit emotion and the imagination of the reader. Poetry can rhyme, using what are called meters of long and short syllables. Some…
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Live Poetry: C.M. Crockford, R.G. Evans, Shannon Frost Greenstein, and Von Wise
Wednesday March 19, 2025 – 7:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s1AkTaeNSISE_wCCV7KJSg C.M. Crockford is a neurodivergent writer and editor. His works been published in dozens of magazines, anthologies, and websites, and his first book Birdsongs was released in 2024 with Alien Buddha Press. You can always…
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Live Poetry: Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
Tuesday March 18, 2025 – 5:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q3BIKrZhRjOSQ_BFscJ85A Nathalie Anderson, author of Rough, Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound. She collaborated with Susan Hagen and Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America. Anderson’s poems have appeared…
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Live Poetry: Catch Breath, Amanda Giordano Herrera, and Matthew Sekellick
Wednesday March 12, 2025 – 7:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zgOiWqUUT6OxURZIbzujjw catch breath is the founder of reunion poetry, a literary festival held in Philadelphia. Amanda Giordano Herrera is an interdisciplinary artist and writer born in Philadelphia. She is an editor for Poet’s Row. Her personal…
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Live Poetry: Sarah Browning, W. D. Ehrhart, and Jack Miller
Wednesday March 5th, 2025 – 7:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/vLVubHweQumhe0GM3rq9nA Sarah Browning is the author of Call Me Yes (forthcoming), 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…
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Live Broadcast: Nathalie Anderson
Tuesday March 11th, 2025 at 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCam 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 Nathalie Anderson’s books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound. …
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Remembering Gerald Stern
Sunday, February 23, 2025 2pm Eastern virtual Register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/P35CdROtSy2NBi1XJHF3lg Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Raritan…
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Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe
Virtual Reading: Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe Sunday, February 9th, 2025 2pm Eastern Virtual Register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1fJ5daTdS8elCUBV79ucyg Lamont B. Steptoe is a poet / photographer / publisher born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is author of eight books of poetry including In the Kitchens of the Master, Mad Minute, Uncle’s South Sea…
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Live Poetry: Samantha Medina, Amanda Nicole Meadeis, and Skyler Norbury
Live Poetry: Samantha Medina, Amanda Nicole Meadeis, and Skyler Norbury Wednesday, February 26, 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street And on Zoom – Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/d9r8978JQ-CQKRC4mzSTbA Samantha Medina is a writer based in South Philadelphia. Her poetry touches on feminism and how to explore the cracks. Amanda Nicole Meadeis a poet, artist, tarot…