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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, …
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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 …
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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Nathalie Anderson, author of Rough, Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and Held and Firmly Bound, collaborated in with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America. Anderson’s poems have appeared in many journals, manages the list-serv Lit-Philly. Steve Burke …
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Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading honoring Robert Frost! Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, …
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Sunday March 17, 2024 2pm EST – VIRITUAL Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5 “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” — Writer Elizabeth Barrett Browning dedicated this iconic poem to her husband Robert Browning but her famous sonnet could just as easily declare love for poetry itself. We can all do that …