530 South Street • Philadelphia, PA
More Fun Upstairs
From the first tag to the latest wheat paste, upstairs at TMom’s has been home to a rich history of local & international street art. This is an ever changing gallery: an un-curated & spontaneous outpouring of creativity by local & traveling artists and the countless visitors who leave their unique mark here nightly.
The birth of the upstairs as a vibrant art space is in part tied to a 1999 exhibition by brothers Noah & Nathan Rice. That year the Brothers Rice brought their umbrella wheat pastes we’d been admiring around South Street to Mom’s. All 5000 of them.
Sticker art has been an important part of the upstairs at Mom’s since day one. So it’s a huge honor (and a lot of fun) to be the home of the Sticky Art Machine.
Love & Good Times Always
The last Accidental Player of 2017 brings Cynthia Dewi Oka, Scott Daughtridge, Sham-e-Ali Nayeem & Emma Brown Sanders together for your listening pleasure!
Doors open at 7pm and the readings start at 8pm
FREE admission!
50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
Tire Fire presents an evening of literature with Michael Konik, Michelle Junot, Bud Smith, & Irène Mathieu. It’s also the Philly book release for Michael Konik’s YEAR 14, from Barrelhouse Books.
All donations collected will go to the CHOP Adolescent Initiative, who have been a leader in the evaluation, prevention, & care of adolescents living with HIV and prevention to high-risk youth. The clinic provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary primary and HIV specialty care since 1993.
Doors at 7, readings start around 8
FREE admission!
50¢ pierogi from until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
If you should find yourself craving some live readings, come out & listen to the words of Kailey Tedesco, Lexi Spino, Ashley Coady, and B. Diehl.
Doors at 7pm, NO admission!
FREE Arts & Crafts
$2 Pabst Blue Ribbon 16oz. pounders & 1/2 price tater tots after 7pm
↓↓↓ Check out more about the readers below!! ↓↓↓
Thirty West Presents returns for an evening of poetry and live readings by local Philadelphia authors. Plus, a live art raffle will take place between readings. $3/ticket for your chance to WIN!
Featuring:
Zach Blackwood
Amy Saul-Zerby
Kat Malozovsky
An EARLY BIRD SPECIAL sale of West’s “HEAD”, as well as art prints & Thirty West merch, will be available for purchase. Standard & limited editions of published works and trading cards will be on hand at this event.
50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
Alexandra Naughton is back in Philly for the wedding of her first ex-boyfriend. Join her, and three other amazingly talented poets and writers, as they attempt to make sense of this thing called Being-An-Adult through live readings of their work. One night only!
50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
Shy Watson is a poet, bartender, & painter currently living in Philadelphia. She is the author of AWAY STATUS (Bottlecap Press 2016) & my parents were going to give me your name if i was born a boy (Bottlecap Press 2017).
Amy Saul-Zerby is a Philadelphia-based poet. Her first collection, Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds, was published by Be About It Press in 2017. Her writing has also appeared in TheNewerYork, Painted Bride Quarterly, Spy Kids Review, and The YOLO Pages, and she is managing editor of the spoken word-based publication Voicemail Poems & multimedia editor of APIARY Magazine.
Alexandra Naughton is turning 32 this year and doesn’t believe she will ever settle down or be a homeowner. Regardless, she is living her best literary life and wants to share some work with you. You should humor her.
P.E. Garcia is an editor-at-large at the Rumpus and a contributor to HTMLGiant. They have a good dog.
Please join Accidental Player for an evening of readings featuring Sebastian Castillo, Kim Gek Lin Short, Temim Fruchter & Kallie Falandays. There will be a celebration for the release of Sebastian’s new book 49 Venezuelan Novels.
Doors at 7pm, readings at 8pm.
50¢ pierogi until 10pm, featuring NEW VEGAN potato & onion
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
An evening of spoken word presented by Thirty West Publishing House.
Featuring:
Kendall A. Bell
Gordon Buchan
Raven Callahan
Chad Frame
Ze Lynx
Hosted by Josh Dale
50¢ pierogi until 10pm. (Our signature potato & onion pierogis are now VEGAN!)
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
Mad House returns to host a release party for Volume 4 of their incredible literary magazine! Support our Philadelphia literary scene while listening to local published authors and poets.
READINGS by:
Talon Bazille-Ducheneaux
Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela
Patrick Blagrave
Mel Bentley
Jacob Camacho
Lindo Yes
Berry Grass
Kirwyn Sutherland
Amy Saul-Zerby
Copies will be for sale at the party { or claim your preorder 🙂 }
Dozens of talented queer and/or trans authors and poets have contributed to the past 3 years of You Can’t Kill A Poet. Come out and enjoy a selection of these past readers while enjoying good words, good drinks, and the celebration of three years of queer and trans folks sharing their work.
Scheduled Readers:
Berry Grass
Emma Sanders
Jessica Levine
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague
Lauren Yates
Alina Pleskova
Zach Blackwood
Julia Perch
Plus MORE to be announced!
$1 all beef or veggie bean tacos (until we run out!)
$2.50 Tecates all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
Tire Fire is back with a great lineup of some favorites! Paula Bomer, Dave Housley, Kirwyn Sutherland, and Ryan Eckes bring verbal evidence of the absolute refinement in the Philadelphia literary scene.
This month, they’re supporting CAIR – Philadelphia Chapter, whose mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding. With Civil Rights Advocacy, Media, Interfaith, Education and Youth Leadership, CAIR-Philadelphia brings an Assertive Muslim American Perspective to the Table. And as always, the bar will be matching all of their donations.
Support local authors….grab up a copy of Barrelhouse Magazine and be sure to get your copy of the authors’ works today!
Doors at 7, reading around 8.
50¢ pierogi until 10pm. Check out our NEW VEGAN signature potato & onion pierogis.
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
