Tire Fire Presents: Pico, Arnett, Salas Rivera, & Osmundson

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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Cheap Yellow Book Release Party

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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YesYes Books Showcase Philadelphia!

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.

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your poetry-loving friends!

Tire Fire Presents: Gerard, Saul-Zerby, Crawford, & Trivedi

BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH…Tire Fire is back with live readings from Sarah Gerard, Amy Saul-Zerby, Ian Carlos Crawford, and Amish Trivedi!

Donations will be collected for Prevention Point Philadelphia, an organization providing harm reduction services to Philadelphia and the surrounding area, and will be matched by TMoms!

Doors at 7, readings start around 8.

50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

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You Can’t Kill A Poet: July Westhale

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 PleskovaZach BlackwoodRaquel 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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Deep Camouflage: book release party

Upon the release of Amy Saul-Zerby‘s second collection of poetry, Deep Camouflage, Philly-based poets Prairie M. FaulRaena Shirali, & Zach Blackwood celebrate with live poetry & spoken word performances!
Have the author sign your new book, they’ll be for sale at the event!

Doors at 7:30, readings at 8.

50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

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You Can’t Fail: January group art variety show

Come check out You Can’t Fail, an evening of ALL NEW works including: visual art, photography, theatre, dance, performance art, comedy, story-telling, poetry, prose, sculpture, ballet, film, stand-up, ANY and ALL art will be presented!

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Alex Roberts, Loren McFalls, Bobby Trucksess, Matthew Rugsby
Britny Brooks
Andy Futuro
Christina Rosso
Simone Crew
Rachel O’Hanlon Rodriguez
Harlee Trautman & Mary-Carmen
Nate Holt
Val Dunn
Lora Bloom
Mykal Carter-Jackson
Alex Vogelsong
Tim Lynch
Benjamin Kunkle

VISUAL ARTISTS
Kate Seethaler
Bethanne Frazer
Jean Marie Tomlin
Kelly Kriegshauser
Qori Moorehaul

FREE Admission!
$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

You Can’t Fail: Autumn edition

An evening of new works including: visual art, photography, theater, dance, performance art, comedy, story-telling, poetry, prose, sculpture, ballet, film, stand-up, ANY and ALL art will be presented.

Featuring new works by:
Tenara Calem
Alexandra Tatarsky

Rachel O’Hanlon Rodriguez
Britny Brooks
Bethanne Frazer
Andy Futuro
Harlee Trautman & Marya-Captan
Walter Michael DeForest
Kay Bee & Val Dunn

Benjamin Kunkle
Stephanie Wesolosky
Simon the Cannibal
Jenna Strusowski 
Kevin Meehan 
Mykal Carter-Jackson
Phil Forrest
Tim Lynch
Alex Vogelsong
Christina Rosso
Neil Bardhan
Doug Williams
Maryan Captan
Becca Kahlil
Michael McJilton

Doors 7pm, Show starts at 8

When There Is No One and There Is Everyone: Poetry, Drag & Art

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.
http://www.rexylafemme.tumblr.com/

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