Tag: local poets

Scribes on South // July 2023

SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. The reading begins with a 20-minute featured reader and then moves through the open mic list for the rest of the night. Open mic readers have 5 minutes. There will be a space for poets to sell books.

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

There is no theme; the only theme is poems. Good poems, bad poems, boring poems, fiery poems.

The reading is hosted by Noah David Roberts.
This reading’s featured reader are Warren Longmire & Thalia Geiger.

Read poems. Kick ass.

 

SUNDAY, JULY 30TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

 

ABOUT THE FEATURES:
Warren C. Longmire is an uncle, writer, performer and educator from the bad part of Philadelphia. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and mix_lit. Warren’s words have been published in journals including Cartridge Lit, The Cleveland Review of Books, The American Poetry Review. He was featured in the Best American Poetry 2021 selected by Tracey K. Smith. His latest book, Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop] was released in Nov. 2022 through BUNNY Presse.

Thalia Geiger is a poet, fiction writer, and editor born and raised in Philadelphia where she works from home as an agent for Publishizer, as well as a poetry editor for West Trade Review. Her varying pieces have been published in journals such as Pamplemousse, Toho Publishing’s The Best Short Stories of Philadelphia Anthology, Allegory Ridge, Santa Ana River Review, New York Quarterly, and more. You can catch up with her on her website, thaliageiger.com.

 

ABOUT THE HOST:
Noah David Roberts is a non-binary poet and artist based in Philadelphia. They are the author of 4 books of poetry—Us V. Them, Strips, Slime Thing [and other poems], and Final Girl Mythos. In 2022, Roberts won the Judith Stark poetry writing contest. Their 5th book What I Do In The Dark was released in 2023, and the book launch was celebrated at the April Scribes on South event.

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom! Sundays, All Day Long.

• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

BULLSHIT LIT’S Second Anthology Release Party

BULLSHIT celebrates the release of their second print anthology with a reading and party @ tmoms! with readings from fourteen all-star writers, books for sale, and maybe even an open mic. 😉

 

SUNDAY, JULY 16TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT

 

Ryan Aliapoulios
L. Amariti
Jackie Domenus
Kat Giordano
Timothy C. Goodwin
finch greene
John Pinto
nat raum
Noah David Roberts
Leticia Priebe Rocha
Rory Strong
Eric Turner
Han Defeo Waldman
Isabella Willms-Jones

Hosted by Veronica Bennett!

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom! Sundays, All Day Long.

• Enjoy our happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

You Can’t Kill A Poet // Pride Month Edition

Happy Pride Month! You Can’t Kill A Poet is back and they are bringing you phenomenal Philly queer and trans poets to share their work and fill the room with queer joy. Come join us at Tattooed Mom for a fun and gregarious night full of feelings. Doors at 7:30pm, reading at 8:00 pm.

This is a 21+ event, free to attend! Please feel welcome to wear masks but please sit this one out if you’re feeling sick. This reading is offered in partnership with the Free Library of Philadelphia with support from The Pennsylvania Department of Education.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28TH
DOORS @ 7:30PM + SHOW @ 8PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT

Featuring Readings By:

Lydia Host is a transgender writer, poet, and literary translator living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The Global City Review, Stone of Madness Press, The Raven’s Perch Magazine, and others.

Khem Chanthavong (He/Him) is a 24 year old Lao Trans Tom and Queer multidisciplinary artist. Through spoken word poetry and R&B + neosoul music, Khem explores his movement through the world as a gender abundant brown trans person. His work highlights the significance of unpacking desirability politics while being fetishized, exploring queer intimacy as well as demanding respect and celebrating QTPOC joy under white supremacist America. His work also highlights finding self love and liberation while moving through grief, generational trauma and poverty. Khem hopes to always bring intentionality to a space whether that’s with warmth and intimacy or much needed disruption. QTPOC voices should always be centered and amplified when we have “Pride” in mind.

Dev Kiyota is an editor living in Philadelphia. A graduate of Temple University’s MFA in Creative Writing, they’re currently typing this bio, which you’ve just finished reading.

Evangeline Brooks is a coffee-worker, singer, poet & actress based in South West Philadelphia. Van is an unpublished poet, whose work revolves around Black Trans ancestry, feminine poz divinity, & the richness, weight, & cost of living in a body that is both desired & discounted. She is a daughter, a sister, a lover, a muse. She stands on the shoulders of many.

Julia Gwiazdowski is a Philly-born and based poet and musician. She often writes on queerness, gender, and mental illness but also can’t resist dabbling in ekphrastic pieces and love poems. She’s been published in Wizards In Space, Stone of Madness Press, and Moss Puppy Magazine.

Trina Sanyal (they/them) is a comic and poet based in Philly. After their first You Can’t Kill a Poet, they were so encouraged and moved by the space that they went on to organize a community reading at Partner and Sons connecting other writers and friends to each other,  and have also read their work at the Kelly Writers House as a part of their Philly Artist series for WXPN. They hope to keep reading, writing, laughing, loving etc etc.

 

 

What’s Up at TMoms:

• Burger Wednesday – Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Wednesdays, 4-11pm.

• Enjoy Mom’s happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

 

Scribes on South // June 2023

SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. The reading begins with a 20-minute featured reader and then moves through the open mic list for the rest of the night. Open mic readers have 5 minutes. There will be a space for poets to sell books.

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

There is no theme; the only theme is poems. Good poems, bad poems, boring poems, fiery poems.

The reading is hosted by Noah David Roberts.
This reading’s featured reader is Amy Jannotti.

Read poems. Kick ass.

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 25TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

 

ABOUT THE FEATURE:
Amy Jannotti (she/her) is a pile of dust in a trenchcoat rotting & writing in Philadelphia. She is the author of the chapbooks AN ANGEL IS A KIND OF GHOST (2022, Bullshit Lit), VULGARSWEET (2023, GutSlut Press), and the one we are gathering to celebrate, ANGELS & INSECTS ARE CREATURE WITH WINGS (2023, Kith Books). Her poems can be found in Olney Magazine, Black Stone / White Stone, Non.Plus Lit, & elsewhere. She tweets @cursetheground.

ABOUT THE HOST:
Noah David Roberts is a non-binary poet and artist based in Philadelphia. They are the author of 4 books of poetry—Us V. Them, Strips, Slime Thing [and other poems], and Final Girl Mythos. In 2022, Roberts won the Judith Stark poetry writing contest. Their 5th book What I Do In The Dark was released in 2023, and the book launch was celebrated at the April Scribes on South event.

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom! Sundays, All Day Long.

• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

Slutty Poems Night // June 2023

Let’s get stupid gay for another edition of Slutty Poems Night!! Celebrate in a night full of salacious sex and sexuality themed words. This is a free event but donations are being collected to help fund dental care for the host’s wife, Autumn.

Feature poets Sean Hanrahan & Kate Carey start the night off.

Bring your hoe shit for the open mic hosted by Lindsay Hargrave. If you’re too shy to share, feel free to shove something into our (anonymous confessions) box.

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT | EVENTBRITE

 

This is a sex positive space that is not tolerant of any racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, fat shaming, slut shaming, or any general bigoted fuckery.

Doors @ 6 pm, show @ 7 pm (but prolly like a gay 7ish) Accessibility Note: Event is upstairs. Stairs are a bit steep.

For more info on Autumn’s fundraiser visit the link here https://gofund.me/2698fc2b

 

LINEUP:
Kate Carey
Sean Hanrahan

Hosted by Lindsay Hargrave.

Follow Slutty Poems Night on Instagram!

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Wednesdays, 4-11pm.   >>> Recently named one of the top burgers in the city by The Philadelphia Inquirer! <<<

• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

Scribes on South // May 2023

SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. The reading begins with a 20-minute featured reader and then moves through the open mic list for the rest of the night. Open mic readers have 5 minutes. There will be a space for poets to sell books.

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

There is no theme; the only theme is poems. Good poems, bad poems, boring poems, fiery poems.

The reading is hosted by Noah David Roberts.
This reading’s featured reader is Lindsay Hargrave.

Read poems. Kick ass.

 

SUNDAY, MAY 28TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

 

ABOUT THE FEATURE:
Follow Lindsay Hargrave in these places:
ROT // Linktr.ee // Twitter // GV // Poetry Selection #1 // Poetry Selection #2

ABOUT THE HOST:
Noah David Roberts is a non-binary poet and artist based in Philadelphia. They are the author of 4 books of poetry—Us V. Them, Strips, Slime Thing [and other poems], and Final Girl Mythos. In 2022, Roberts won the Judith Stark poetry writing contest. Their 5th book What I Do In The Dark was released in 2023, and the book launch was celebrated at the April Scribes on South event.

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom! Sundays, All Day Long.

• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

You Can’t Kill A Poet // Nine Year Anniversary!

It’s our nine-year anniversary! Come celebrate! We’re bringing you phenomenal queer and trans poets from Philadelphia to share their work and fill the room with queer experience. Come join us for this rowdy, raucous, fun event full of feelings! We’re back at Tattooed Mom! Doors at 7:30pm, reading at 8:00 pm.

This is a 21+ event, ids are checked at the door. Free to attend! Please be vaccinated, masks are welcome. Please sit this one out if you’re feeling sick. This reading is offered in partnership with the Free Library of Philadelphia with support from The Pennsylvania Department of Education.

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17TH
DOORS @ 7:30PM + SHOW @ 8PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT

 

Featuring Readings By:

Lauren Yates is a writer, visual artist, & burlesque performer from Philadelphia by way of San Diego. Lauren has represented Philly at the National Poetry Slam and the Women of the World Poetry Slam. Her work has been featured in bedfellows, Voicemail Poems, GLITTERBRAIN, Bettering American Poetry, and more. Lauren is also a teaching artist and is currently developing a workshop that marries poetry and burlesque. Find her on Instagram @i_am_yates.

S. Brook Corfman is the author of two collections of poetry and several chapbooks, including My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites, one of The New York Times’ Best Poetry Books of 2020, and Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard Siken for the 2018 Autumn House Writing Riser Prize. They are also an essayist, critic, and the Translation Editor at The Offing.

Stephanie Cawley is a poet in Philadelphia and a 2023 NEA Fellow. They are the author of My Heart But Not My Heart, winner of the Slope Book Prize chosen by Solmaz Sharif, and the chapbook A Wilderness from Gazing Grain Press. Poems and other writing appear in Prolit, bedfellows, Peach Magazine, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, among other places.

Evangeline Brooks is a coffee-worker, singer, poet & actress based in South West Philadelphia. Van is an unpublished poet, whose work revolves around Black Trans ancestry, feminine poz divinity, & the richness, weight, & cost of living in a body that is both desired & discounted. She is a daughter, a sister, a lover, a muse. She stands on the shoulders of many.

Alexa Smith is a poet from D.C. doing her best in West Philly. She works in publishing and teaches creative writing at Temple, UArts, and sometimes Blue Stoop. Her work can be found on Entropy, Interim, Peach Mag, Spotify and elsewhere.

Warren C. Longmire is an uncle, writer, technologist and an educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is the host and co-creator of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party, and is a Board member for Blue Stoop. His work blends language play, performance and his own preoccupations with cities, masculinity, blackness and the modern world. His latest book, Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop] was released in Nov. 2022 through BUNNY Presse.

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Wednesdays, 4-11pm.

• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

Scribes on South // “What I Do In The Dark” Book Launch

SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. The reading begins with a 20-minute featured reader and then moves through the open mic list for the rest of the night. Open mic readers have 5 minutes. There will be a space for poets to sell books.

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

There is no theme; the only theme is poems. Good poems, bad poems, boring poems, fiery poems.

This reading is something a little different—this will be the book launch for Noah David Robert‘s newest book, What I Do in the Dark, described as a “lovesick balloon” by Amy Jannotti and a “collection from one of Philadelphia’s best emerging poets” by Lindsay Hargrave. The book is published by Alien Buddha press. Come out for the launch party and open mic!

Roberts will read for a 15 minute featured set and then host an open mic.

Read poems. Kick ass.

 

SUNDAY, APRIL 30TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

 

ABOUT THE HOST:
Noah David Roberts is a non-binary poet and artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Roberts has
released 4 collections: Us v. Them, 2017, about the nature of sexual trauma and political
violence; Strips, a divagation of the self, an endless ranting masterpiece; Slime Thing [and other
poems], a scream of anti-capitalism and stream of frustrated proletariat consciousness; Final
Girl Mythos, inspired by classic 80s and 90s slasher movies; and What I Do in the Dark,
forthcoming 2023. Since publication of their first book, Roberts has been published in Big
Scream, King’s River Review, Tribes Magazine, Horror Sleaze Trash, and more. In 2022,
Roberts won the Judith Stark poetry contest. Their Instagram handle is @the.apocalypse.poet.

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• It’s Philly Vegan Restaurant Week! Tutu Mary’s has some very special menu items for us, changing all week long! Come back multiple times so you can eat the whole menu!

• Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom! Sundays, All Day Long.

• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

Body Talk: an evening of readings

“I am not an intellectual. I write with my body.”
—Clarice Lispector

 

“Body-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody
Ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody (mwah)”
— Megan Thee Stallion

 

Come enjoy an evening hosted by visiting poet Emily Marie Passos Duffy and local author Leah Mele-Bazaz! This multigenre reading of prose, poetry, and hybrid forms will explore a spectrum of sensations from body horror to body elation. What are the limits of the body? How do factors such as ability, age, gender identity and expression, race, size, sexuality, illness, wellness, relationship with your environment, and more shape the language of your body?

 

TUESDAY, APRIL 11TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // SUGGESTED DONATION
RSVP: FB EVENT

 

Readings by your hosts and featured writers Jeannine A. Cook, Alexa Vallejo, K.P. Writ, and Nathan Alling Long explore these questions and delve into the ways bodies can hunger, betray us, support us, and teach us.

The event will include book signings, pop up flash readings, and more!

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

Slutty Poems Night // April 2023

Prepare all your erogenous zones for another edition of Slutty Poems Night! This is a free event but donations are being collected to help fund dental care for the host’s wife, Autumn.

Featured poets Maya Nicole & Enjoli start the night off.

Bring your hoe shit for the open mic hosted by Kate Carey. If you’re too shy to share, feel free to shove something into our (anonymous confessions) box. Elayna Mae Darcy will be selling books &cute gay stickers.

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT | EVENTBRITE

 

This is a sex positive space that is not tolerant of any racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, fat shaming, slut shaming, or any general bigoted fuckery.

Accessibility Note: Event is upstairs. Stairs are a bit steep.
For more info on Autumn’s fundraiser visit the link here.

 

LINEUP:
Enjoli
Maya Nicole

Hosted by Kate Carey.
Books & Art Vendor Elayna Mae Darcy.

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Wednesdays, 4-11pm.

• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

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