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27th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology Monday, January 29th, 2024 – 2PM Virtual on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqduytqjwjG9dP-hVrP8szAyz7uxDeUXTe We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 27th year of presenting 100 poets …
Sunday January 28, 2024 – 2pm Live at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 27th year of presenting 100 poets reading in …
Wednesday January 24, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street And on Zoom: ttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodOmrqz8sEtaWMbfHtRb-xMHXESjVcrpm W. D. Ehrhart, Poet, Writer, Scholar and Teacher began writing when he was 15 years old and has been writing more or less continuously ever since. His first published work, a poem about Swarthmore College, appeared seven years later …
Jonathan Koven, author of Palm Lines, Below Torrential Hill (EE) a winner of the Electric Eclectic Novella Prize, and Mystic Orchards, Grew up on Long Island, NY. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from American University, works as a technical writer, and reads chapbooks for Moonstone Arts. He lives in Philadelphia with …
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Elliott Levin, author of does it swing and his newest poetry CD A Word by Any Other Name is a Philadelphia jazz legend. He has a quite active career as a published poet and likes to combine the two aesthetics in his performances. Ursula Rucker is an interdisciplinary poet, performer, and recording artist whose work reflects on personal history, family, and place. She characterizes her work as situated “along the edge of the terrains of poetry.” Yolanda Wisher was named inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, and currently serves as chair of the
Philadelphia Poet Laureate Governing Committee. She is the author of Monk Eats an Afro and co-editor of the
anthology Peace is a Haiku Song with mentor Sonia Sanchez. Wisher performs a blend of poetry and song with
her band Yolanda Wisher; The Afroeaters.
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock Tuesday January 9, 2023 @ 6:30pm VIRTUAL Watch for free on the PhillyCAM website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. Autumn McClintock is a freelance writer and editor living in Germantown. Her newest chapbook, Dirt Bird, was recently published by Alexandria Quarterly Press, and poems of …
Wednesday, 12/27 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub 7PM ET & on Zoom Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcOGspzgiG9ISfRlJNdRQj2faXJsWhktf Cydney Brown is the 2023 Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate, 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. She is a Sophomore at Northwestern University and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade. Savannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an …
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Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2023 November 19th at 2pm Via Zoom (registration required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuqpqTwoHt2LdMLO0LIelaovDd0q08NP Celebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets! New Voices is series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes a monthly reading series and a …
Live Reading: New Voices Fall 2023 November 16th at 6pm Hosted: Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street In cooperation with the Literature Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia Celebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets! New Voices is series for emerging poets between …
Live Poetry reading at Fergie’s Pub. Jane-Rebecca Cannarella (she/her) is a writer, editor, and salt enthusiast living in Philadelphia. She is the editor of HOOT Review and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, and a former genre editor at Lunch Ticket. Josh Dale is a native Pennsylvanian and the author of the novella, The Light to Never Be Snuffed (Alien Buddha Press, 2022,) and the poetry collection, Duality Lies Beneath (Thirty West Publishing, 2016.) Shannon Frost Greenstein (she/her) resides in Philadelphia with her children and soulmate. She is the author of “Pray for Us Sinners,” a fiction collection with Alien Buddha Press, and “An Oral History of One Day in Guyana,” a chapbook forthcoming from Bullsh*t Lit. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in Continental Philosophy and a multi-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere. Christina Rosso-Schneider (she/they) is a writer, educator, and bookstore owner living outside of Philadelphia with her bearded husband and rescue pups. She is the author of CREOLE CONJURE (Maudlin House, 2021) and SHE IS A BEAST (APEP Publications, 2020). Currently, she teaches in the humanities department at Moore College of Art and through Rosemont College’s MFA Writer’s Studio.