[ 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 [...]
[ October 13, 2011; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Thursday, October 13 – 8pm-$10 Cover, All Ages-Jazz
David Nord Quartet & Craig Eber Trio
David Nord Quartet: David Nord – guitar & composer, Patrick Fink – rhodes electric piano, Eli Sklarsky – drums, Matt Neil – electric bass. A group of creative musicians performing the original compositions of guitarist David Nord. The music takes a unique [...]
[ October 12, 2011; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Wednesday, October 12, 7:30pm – $5 donation recommended-Comedy
Phyllis Voren’s “WHAT’S FUNNY ABOUT THAT?” AN EVENING OF SUBVERSIVE COMEDY
Phyllis Voren has entertained U.S. troops in the Arctic Circle; performed in a Ritz Crackers commercial with Andy Griffith; done improv at The Comedy Store in L.A. and was a regular performer at Dangerfields Comedy Club in NY. [...]
[ October 12, 2011; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Wednesday, October 12, 6pm – Non-Fiction
Annie Sonnie & James Tracy
authors of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times ($16.95 Melville House)
The story of some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960’s, in a deeply sourced narrative history. The historians of the late 1960s have emphasized [...]
[ October 11, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Tuesday, October 11, 7pm Poetry
The Moonstone Poetry Series Presents
[ October 9, 2011; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Sunday, October 9, 3pm – National Writers Union
National Writers Union Meeting
The National Writers Union is the only labor union that represents freelance writers in all genres, formats, and media.
“As freelancers we may value our autonomy, but we are united in the fact that we work independently. We face the same challenges, file the same income [...]
[ October 7, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Friday, October 7, 7pm – Eastern European Poetry
Tadeusz Dabrowski, Martin Woodside & Adam Sorkin
Tadeusz Dąbrowski is a poet, essayist, critic, and editor of the literary bimonthly “Topos”. He has been published in many journals in Poland and abroad, including, in America, Boston Review, Agni, American Poetry Review, Tin House, Crazyhorse, Poetry Daily, Guernica, and Poetry [...]
[ October 6, 2011; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Thursday, October 6, 8pm –Poetry
Natalie Lyalin, Megan Martin & Kristi Maxwell
Kristi Maxwell is the author of Realm-Sixty-four (Ahsahta, 2008), Hush Sessions (Saturnalia, 2009), and the recently published Re- (Ahsahta). Her poems have most recently appeared in New American Writing and 1913 a journal of forms. She teaches at the Poetry Center and university in Tucson [...]
[ October 6, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Thursday, October 6, 7pm – Non Fiction
Class Warfare in Philadelphia- Part 3 – Vacant Land
A Special Program@1199C Training and Upgrading Fund Auditorium – 100 S. Broad Street, 10th Floor
7:00pm: The David Harvey animated lecture
7:15pm: Panel Discussion with Ed Dodson, Cheri Honkala, Marcus Presley, Nancy Salandra
Class Warfare in Philadelphia- Part 3 – Vacant Land
Ed Dodson retired [...]
[ October 6, 2011; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. October 13, 2011; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. October 20, 2011; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. October 27, 2011; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Thursdays @ 5:30pm – Workshop
The Life of The Poet Workshop with Leonard Gontarek
Thursdays, 5:30 –7 PM. $60 for four sessions. Contact: Leonard Gontarek gontarek9@earthlink.net
Leonard Gontarek is the author of St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris, Van Morrison Can’t Find His Feet, Zen For Beginners and Déjà Vu Diner (Autumn House Press, 2006). He is the editor [...]
[ September 30, 2011; 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Friday, September 30, 9pm – Jazz
BYOB – $8 General Admission, $4 w/ Student ID
Nicole Saphos Quartet
Elijah Jamal Balbed (saxophone); Dave Sanders (guitar); Ele Rubenstein (drums); Nicole Saphos (bass/vocals)
Nicole Saphos is a Jazz bassist/vocalist who grew up in Los Angeles. Currently living in Philadelphia, she is a senior at Temple University’s Boyer School of Music, [...]
