[ June 27, 2010; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 4pm – PoetryCelebration of Light: A Tribute to Lucille CliftonEveryone is invited to share their poems and memories of Lucille
“It will take a long time for many of us to truly accept a world that goes on without Lucille Clifton – one that goes on often without much apparent evidence of her [...]
[ September 30, 2010; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Thursday, September 30, 5:30pm – Poetry
Sandy Tseng & Alicia Ostriker
Sandy Tseng author of Sediment ($15.95 Four Way Books)
In Sandy Tseng’s first collection, leaving is both what remains and the act of going to another place, a different lifestyle, an unknown afterlife. This book recounts the pleasures and terrors of transition, of being “in between languages.” [...]
[ September 28, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Tuesday, September 28, 7pm – Poetry
The Moonstone Poetry Series
Eleanor Wilner & Mary Lynn Ellis
Eleanor Wilner author of Visitor in Hell ($18.00 University of Chicago Press)
Eleanor Wilner has published six collections of poems, most recently The Girl with Bees in Her Hair; Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems; and Otherwise. Her work has appeared in [...]
[ September 26, 2010; 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Sunday, September 26, 3pm – $3 Cover & Pot Luck – Swap Meet
VolkLibre!/Handmade Philly Swap Meet
The beginning of a new era; exchange leads to real change.
[ September 26, 2010; 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. ] Sunday, September 26, 11am – Discussion
The Nation Magazine Discussion Group
[ September 24, 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Friday, September 24, 7:30pm – Science Fiction
Philadelphia Fantastic Presents
L.A. Banks author of the Crimson Moon Series
L.A. Banks’ bestselling Crimson Moon series continues, and this time the otherworldly threat is dangerously personal… Secret government operative Sasha Trudeau earned a long vacation with her lover and fellow Shadow Wolf, Hunter, after the brutal wolf-like attacks that left [...]
[ September 22, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Wednesday, September 22, 7pm – Poetry
Many Mountains Moving Magazine Reading
Jeffrey Lee, senior poetry editor
[ September 21, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Tuesday, September 21, 7pm – Poetry
Poets & Prophets Presents
Bob Small
[ September 14, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Tuesday, September 14, 7pm – Poetry
Moonstone Poetry Series Presents
Daniel Donaghy & Connie Garcia-Barrio
In his second collection of poems, Daniel Donaghy uses the power of poetry to connect the Kensington section of Philadelphia he knew as a boy––a place replete with crime, poverty, fractured families, and various other kinds of darkness––to upstate New York’s woods, rural [...]
[ September 13, 2010; 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. September 20, 2010; 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. September 27, 2010; 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Monday, September 13, 6:30pm – Fiction Workshop
Monday, September 20, 6:30pm – Fiction Workshop
Monday, September 27, 6:30pm – Fiction Workshop
Philadelphia Stories Fiction Workshop
For more information please email: christine@philadelphiastories.org
