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March 2024

Hearing Women’s Voices: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Michelle Myers, & Kimmika L.H Williams-Witherspoon

March 28 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Barnes and Noble 1708 Chesnut St., 1708 Chesnut Street.
Phildelphia, PA 19122 United States
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Join us for Live Poetry at Barnes and Noble! Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the author of three poetry collections: 40 WEEKS, Don't Touch the Bones, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize, and The Many Names for Mother, winner the Wick Poetry Prize and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is currently working on a poetry collection as well as a book of linked lyric essays, both of which grapple with raising a neurodiverse child with a disabled partner…

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April 2024

Poetry Reading: Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Finalists

April 2 @ 5:00 pm
The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street, 1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104 United States
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Moonstone Arts Center and the Literature Department of The Free Liberty of Philadelphia Present: Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Finalists  The Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Program is designed to award a young poet (14-18) the title of Youth Poet Laureate who is well versed in poetic expression, exemplifies a deep understanding of poetic language, exhibits uniqueness and newness, and shows appreciation for all art forms. Featuring Sofia Bagarazzi, Maya Brothers, Sophia Hall, Emi Maeda, Samrithaa H.V. Sofia Bagarazzi is…

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Virtual Poetry: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM with Brain Tierney

April 2 @ 6:30 pm

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 6/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Brian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float, winner of the 20-2021 Jake Adam York Prize. His poetry and prose have appeared in such journals as Paris Review, Kenyon Review, AGNI, NER, The Adroit Journal, and others. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and a graduate of the Bennington College…

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Live Poetry: Anuradha Bhowmik, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, Jess Yuan

April 3 @ 7:00 pm
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA United States
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Join us for a poetry reading, live at Fergie's Pub and on Zoom! Anuradha Bhowmik  is a Bangladeshi-American poet and writer from South Jersey, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her first collection Brown Girl Chromatography, a Kundiman Fellow and a 2018 AWP Intro Journals Project Winner in Poetry. Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, a native Philadelphian, is the author 8 books, the latest of which is Blues, Prayers, & Pagan Chant. She has been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer,…

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Live Poetry: Ona Gritz, Alina Macneal, Zack Rogow

April 9 @ 5:30 pm
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA United States
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Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie's Pub and on Zoom! Ona Gritz writes memoir, essays, and poetry for adults, verse novels for teens, and fiction for children, her poetry collection Geode was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Zack Rogow is an American poet, playwright, translator, and critic. He is the author of nine books of poetry, including Irreverent Litanies; Talking with the Radio: poems inspired by jazz and popular music, and My Mother and…

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Live Poetry: zach blackwood, Faye Chevalier, Violet Gehringer

April 10 @ 7:00 pm
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA United States
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Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie's Pub and on Zoom! zach blackwood is a poet and culture writer in philadelphia, author of ultra-fine and the apocryphal chapbook sexy unique hollow point. Faye Chevalier is a Philadelphia-based creatur, lurking. She is the author of futur.txt and flesh_wound, her poetry has been featured in bedfellows, The Wanderer, Peach Mag, Yes Poetry, the tiny, & elsewhere, & she serves as a editor for Voicemail Poems.  Violet Gehringer's work has appeared in Vice,…

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Live Poetry: Matt Lake, Jon Lawrence, Hannah McDonald

April 17 @ 7:00 pm
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA United States
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Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie's Pub and on Zoom! Matt Lake is frankly baffled, he began writing and editing books about folklore, monsters, and dark history--including his best-known book Weird Pennsylvania. Jon Lawrence poetry and reviews have been published in Newfound, American Writers Review, The Bangalore Review, and others. Hannah McDonald is a writer, poet, geek, and generally funny queer woman. Her writing has appeared in Apiary, The Legendary, and Dreamstreets. Hannah writes fan-fiction, if you’re into that sort…

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Virtual Poetry: International Haiku Day

April 21 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

International Haiku Poetry Day (April 17) was started in 2007 and later taken on by The Haiku Foundation in celebration of National Poetry Month. According to The Haiku Foundation, the haiku is an ancient and undefinable-in-English form of Japanese poetry. At its most basic, it is three lines, the first with five syllables, the second with seven and the third with five. Write us a Haiku. “Haiku are short imagistic poems about things that make the reader feel connected to…

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Live Poetry: Warren C. Longmire, Kirwya Sutherland

April 24 @ 7:00 pm

Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie's Pub and on Zoom! Warren C. Longmire, author of Bird/Diz,  is an uncle, writer, performer and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and mix_lit. Kirwyn Sutherland makes poems centering the black experience in America, whose work has been published in American Poetry Review, APIARY Magazine, FOLDER, The Wanderer and elsewhere. Register for Zoom

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May 2024

Live Poetry: Leeway Foundation Poets

May 1 @ 7:00 pm
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA United States
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Live at Fergie's Pub and on Zoom. Nzadi Keita’s new poetry collection, Migration Letters, centers her upbringing in Black working-class Philadelphia. Pat McLean-Smith is a female word artist dedicated to the writing, reciting and powerful performance of poetry. Debra Powell-Wright has been a performance poet for the past 25+ years and has been published in numerous anthologies, including a tribute to the legacy of Nina Simone. Nikki Powerhouse uses performance and literary art to create a space for collective healing…

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