Tag: poetry
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Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Krystle Griffin, and Anne-Adele Wight
Wednesday April 9, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Join us for the Book Launch of Long Island Sad Poems by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella (Serotonin Press) Jane-Rebecca Cannarella edits HOOT Review, a magazine published on postcards, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, a broadside press, and was an editor for Lunch…
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Live Poetry: Julia Kolchinsky’s PARALLAX
April 12, 2025 – 7pm EDT- LIVE Live at Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine Street Join us as we celebrate the release of Julia Kolchinsky’s new book PARALLAX Julia Kolchinsky’s Parallax offers a lyrical narrative of parenting a neurodiverse child under the shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the poet’s birthplace. As her child…
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Live Broadcast: Grady Chambers
Tuesday April 8, 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 Grady Chambers is the author of the novel Great Disasters and the poetry collection North American Stadiums, selected by Henri Cole as the…
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Anthology Reading: Chaos, Crises, Conflict
Monday March 31, 2025 – 7pmEST – Chaos, Crises, Conflict Anthology Reading – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/o5aORNAuQH6qAzaYCOI-Yg In a time fraught with political strife and armed conflict, how can we reframe, heal, and continue to live in the midst of destruction, chaos, and loss? We seem to have forgotten that we are all human beings. Where is…
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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…