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
Accidental Player returns with an all-new lineup of local poets & authors! This month features Steven Karl, Raena Shirali, Boston Gordon, and Steven Perez.
Doors at 7pm and reading at 8pm
FREE Admission!
$2 Pabst Blue Ribbon 16oz. pounders starting at 7pm
1/2 price tater tots starting at 7pm
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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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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
Your queer and trans community members are back at it again sharing their stories, their art, and their grit- once again proving that You Can’t Kill A Poet at this ALL INCLUSIVE literary event.
Readers TBA shortly!
$1 Beef or Bean tacos (until we run out!)
$2.50 Tecates all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
Celebrate the release of Rex Renee Leonowitch‘s new book of poetry and illustrations, When There Is No One And There Is Everyone, with an evening of poetry, drag, music & art.
The event will feature readings and performances using drag, music, poetry, and visual art/digital media to pay homage to events & people who, through their protest, grief, triumph & lust for life, shape our world for the better.
REX RENEE LEONOWICZ is a multimedia artist, performer, writer, and activist from Queens, New York. As a poor/working class, trans/nonbinary femme, Rex’s art and performance work is grounded in a politics of radical resistance, healing, and witness. Rex is a gender-bending, genre-blending artist whose work critically responds to the relationships people on the margins have with our surroundings and each other.
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OKI SOGUMI was born in Seoul, South Korea as military dictatorship ended. She writes poetry and fiction, and her forthcoming speculative novella is about giant insects, migration, time travel, oceanic feelings, wellness, and both the limits and possibilities of relations like friendship. She currently resides in Philadelphia.
AMY SAUL-ZERBY‘s first poetry collection Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds was published by Be About It Press in 2017. Her work has also appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Spy Kids Review, Mad House & TheNewerYork. She is editor in chief of Voicemail Poems, multimedia editor at Apiary Magazine, and a contributing writer at Fields Magazine.
$4 Hamburgers & Vegan Burgers until midnight (try our Burger of the Month!)
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
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
