Jeremy M. Brownlowe travels the country under the moniker “Typewriter Troubadour,” composing original pieces of poetry on a manual typewriter for curious pedestrians. This event marks the release of his debut, Angels of the Underground, a collection of rich, raw, and tender poems from an explorer navigating new frontiers of gender identity, sexuality, and human relationship.
Set in New York City, Angels offers Brownlowe’s unique perspective as a trans guy through unflinching portraits of male vulnerability, queerness, addiction, lost love, and modern alienation. With humor, grit, and ease, Brownlowe weaves stories of the neglected subjects of the City, taking notes in poems, which he offers up to us in this compelling collection.
This event will also feature readings by local Philadelphia poets:
Author Cashmere
LindoYes
Amber Renee
Cynthia Jones
Ari
Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ pierogi from noon-10pm
& half off all drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
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Join us for Breadcrumbs’ first Philly reading! It should be a fantastic night of poetry, prose, and drinks! We’ll have copies of our new zine, The Path, on sale, alongside some t-shirts and posters.
Performers Include:
Josh Dale
Bob Raymonda
Maddie Anthes
Christopher D. Diccico
Richelle Ko
Nicholas Perilli
Gabriela Basyuk
Boston Gordon
Lilith Kulp
Gage Mondok
Breadcrumbs Mag is an online literary & arts blog that acts as an exercise in motivation and shared inspiration, a chance to create when otherwise your professional life might not give you reason to, an outlet to plant the seeds of an idea and watch where they can go — through your own mind or someone else’s.
Enjoy half off all drafts before and after the event from 5-7pm and 10-11pm.
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Here to usher us into spring, Tire Fire is back with a Whiting Award winner & his Food 4 Thot co-host, the Philly Poet Laureate, and a fiction writer/twitter genius.
LINEUP:
Tommy Pico
Kristen Arnett
Raquel Salas Rivera
Joseph Osmundson
Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ pierogi from noon-10pm
& half off all drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Donations will be collected for Project SAFE, an all-volunteer grassroots organization providing advocacy and support for women working in street economies. SAFE’s mission is to promote human rights-based public health among women working in the sex and drug trades on the street in Philadelphia.
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Shy Watson is stopping by for a reading of her new book, Cheap Yellow! She will be joined by other local poets & will have copies of the book available for sale!
Shy’s poems are abruptly smart, a little violent, devious and ongoing, legendary, mythic, not prosey though a little like the voice of god if god decided to speak more collectively for a while. Shy’s poems to me are so so worth it.
And they are crafty – also like god.
—Eileen Myles, author of Afterglow
Roster:
Amy Saul-Zerby
Prairie M. Faul
Zach Blackwood
Ash Strange
Ted Tarnovski
Shy Watson
Enjoy this event with our Burger Wednesday specials:
$4 Burgers
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys
Half off all drafts 5-7 and 10-11pm
& check out May’s Burger of the Month, DUDES: friend green tomato, crisp red cabbage & apple slaw, and smokey red pepper mayo
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We are so happy to bring YesYes Books and a night of amazing poetry to Tattooed Mom!
Readers:
Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Caylin Capra-Thomas
Brandon Courtney
Jamie Mortara
Gala Mukomolova
Raena Shirali
NO COVER
Enjoy our regular Burger Wednesday’s Specials:
$4 Mom’s Burgers and Mom’s Vegan Burgers, 12pm-12am
Half off all drafts 10-11pm
and check out April’s Burger of the Month, Get Crazy: all beef or veggie burger, zatar spiced fried pita strips, spicy red pepper hummus, and mediterranean cucumber salad.
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NOTE: Due to winter storm weather the readers will not be able to make to Philadelphia. This event is POSTPONED and will be rescheduled for May. Watch this space for a new date!
Come out and support our talented Philadelphia poets for an evening of live readings & poetry, and celebrate as Shy Watson releases their new poetry collection, Cheap Yellow.
Bound books & zines will be available for purchase…get the authors to sign them before they’re too famous for TMoms!
amy saul-zerby
prairie m faul
zach blackwood
ash strange
ted tarnovski
shy watson
FREE admission!
Starts at 7pm
$4 Mom’s Burgers & Mom’s Vegan Burgers until midnight
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
You Can’t Kill A Poet presents July Westhale who is coming to Philadelphia to share work from her new book Trailer Trash, winner of the 2016 Kore Press Book Award!
Also featuring local poets Alina Pleskova, Zach Blackwood, Raquel Salas Rivera & Boston Gordon.
Come out to welcome July & celebrate the badass work of queer and trans poets. FREE admission! Readings start at 7:30.
$1 all beef or veggie bean tacos…until we run out!
$2.50 Tecates all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
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John O. Mason presents an evening of literature with local Philly poets Frank Sherlock and Irving Jones.
Frank Sherlock is the author of Life Is to Blame for Everything, Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated, Over Here, The City Real & Imagined (w/ CAConrad) and a collaboration with Brett Evans entitled Ready-to-Eat Individual. Poems beyond the page have found their forms in installations/performances/exhibitions, including Organize Your Own: The Politics & Poetics of Self-Determination. He is a 2013 Pew Fellow and 2014-15 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.
John O. Mason will have copies of his anthology, All Of The Above, along with two other poetry volumes.
$4 Hamburgers & Vegan Burgers until midnight
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
Come celebrate the holidays by unwrapping & unravelling with local poets Alina Pleskova, Stephanie Kaylor, Raquel Salas Rivera, Raena Shirali & Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela.
There will be booze; there will be vibes; there will likely be a lot of hugging. Plus, the poets will have books for sale. Let’s get festive!!
FREE FUN!
50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
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