Tag: reading
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Live Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
Warren C. Longmire is a writer, performer, and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is author of Bird/Diz: An Erased History of Bebop, and you can find his work in journals including Action, Spectacle, R&R, and the American Poetry Review. He is the former contributing editor for Apiary Magazine, the host of House…
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Wednesday May 27, 2026 – 7pm LIVE
Wednesday May 27, 2026 – 7pm LIVE @ FERGIES Featuring: Alexander Khan, Dustin Wright, and Mac Chandler as host Alexander Khan is a poet, he is also a member of a big family in a small house, and a pharmacy staff for children. His work reflects these places and the different person he becomes in…
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 – LIVE @ 7pm
Wednesday May 13, 2026 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War offers a groundbreaking and vital perspective on war’s destruction of the natural world—the creatures, plants, soil, water, and atmosphere of Earth. In poems and contextual comments, 61 contemporary poets…
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Live Poetry: Terri Lyons, Debrah Morkun, and J. C. Todd
Live Poetry: Terri Lyons, Debrah Morkun, and J. C. Todd Wednesday January 22, 2025 – 7:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street For Zoom, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlfuirpzwsG9x38xszu1yyCB6qJwrpYsAr Terri Lyons is a Philadelphia based poet and playwright who has collaborated with a variety of urban initiatives to support cultural and historical enrichment. Her latest book is…
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Live Poetry: Jon Lawrence, MJ McGinn, VA Smith, and Amy Beth Sission
Live Poetry with Jon Lawrence, MJ McGinn, VA Smith, and Amy Beth Sission Wednesday January 15, 2025 – 7:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street Or register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEscOiprj4vHN0alIAMAjPkfzE1D9sbPaZe Jon Lawrence currently teaches high school English and Creative Writing in his hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He received an MFA in Creative Writing at the…
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Live Poetry: House Poet with Mike Bagwell and Michael Ivory
Live Poetry: House Poet with Mike Bagwell and Michael Ivory Wednesday January 8, 2025 – 7:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street On Zoom – Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpdu-spzsiEtHWlYze5LmC-S7s1MFjVGdK House Poet @ Fergie’s Pub – Since March 2022, House Poet has strived to bring together writers, dancers, DJs, and musicians. Join us as we bring that…
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Live Poetry: Serotonin Anthology Release Reading
Serotonin Anthology Release Reading Sunday December 29, 2024 – 2pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street On zoom – Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdemvrTkoHNCjR-UHD_ESBLD1ayB-_vOL Cynthia Arrieu-King was raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and earned her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. A former Kundiman Fellow, Arrieu-King is the author of the poetry chapbook The Small Anything City and…
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Virtual Poetry: Remembering Louis McKee
Remembering Louis McKee (July 31, 1951– November 21, 2011) Sunday November 24, 2024@ 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL On Zoom, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pceChqzgjGdayBxHLCQaGDjDwjYHv85Xm Louis McKee was an American poet and a fixture of the Philadelphia poetry scene from the early 1970s. He was the author of Schuylkill County, The True Speed of Things, and fourteen other…
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Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2024
Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2024 Sunday November 17, 2024 – 2pm EST – VIRTUAL Register to access Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocu6tpzotGNe7ciI7XVSoht8wYC9CkeMW New Voices Anthology – Fall 2024 – A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. A monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from…
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Live Poetry: Mia Kang, Allayna Nofs, and Herman Beavers
Moonstone Live Poetry Wednesday October 9, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom Register for Zoom access: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpceivqTIpHNL2TDUW4c3-ZEqlzjU3eIE9 Mia Kang is the author of City Poems, Apparent Signs and the winner of the 2023 Airlie Prize for All Empires Must. She lives in Philadelphia with two cats, is the…