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Event title
Mad Poets Bonfire
Start time
9/14/2024 4:00pm
Location
Ridley Creek State Park, 1023 Sycamore Mills Rd, Media, PA 19063
Description
The Mad Poets Society presents the annual Mad Poets Bonfire. This longstanding Mad Poets tradition is a celebration of poetry and community that takes place around a roaring fire. Setup begins around 4 PM, and the event goes into the night. Though you do not have to stay over, there is camping available for those of you who wish to, so if interested bring your tents and gear!
At about 5, we will have a generative writing activity for anyone interested. Then, as the sun goes down, we’ll light the fire and gather around to share our poetry. Musicians welcome. Light snacks will be provided, but feel free to bring your own as well. Absolutely no alcohol. Please be advised that this is not an event for children.
Link
Contact info
https://www.madpoetssociety.com/
Cost
Event is free, please bring your tents and gear if camping, and any snacks you may want!
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Event title
Palette & Poetry
Start time
9/14/2024 6:00pm
Location
954 North 8th Street Philadelphia, PA 19123
Description
Palette and Poetry is an unique mobile pop-up that transforms gallery spaces into a creative haven for artists and art lovers. When you visit a P&P Day Party or night exhibit you will experience artworks from local visual artists, makers, and hear poetry readings from raw artists and writers. Check the button below for events near you! You won't want to miss out on this one of a kind opportunity to explore new artwork and meet the creators behind them.
The stage is set! Join us for Palette&Poetry in September. Our artists are uniting to create an amazing experience for the community! Step out to enjoy Visual Arts, Drinks, Live Performances by Local DJs and Poets!
A little more about us :
Palette&Poetry is a welcoming environment that connects the creator to the enthusiast! A place that artists can reach new audiences & an unique space to create lasting memories through music poetry and art.
Tickets will only be honored through EVENTBRITE
Link
Contact info
@unitedundergrounds
Cost
$7.50 - $35 (plus Eventbrite fees)
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Event title
Wild Indigo Poetry Series Launch Featuring Denice Frohman and Gabriel Ramirez
Start time
9/15/2024 5:00pm
Location
Young American Hard Cider and Tasting Room, 6350 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144
Description
Join us for the launch of a new monthly series, Wild Indigo Poetry, featuring Denice Frohman and Gabriel Ramirez! Sarah Browning and Raina León are co-curators and co-hosts. Bring your poem to read on the open mic!
Wild Indigo will take place every third Sunday of the month, 5-7 pm, in person at Young American Cider, 6350 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia. The series will be free and open to the public, with a suggested donation of $5. See below for poets' bios and featured poets for the months ahead, including Sonia Sanchez in October!
Co-sponsoring Wild Indigo is the progressive organization Reclaim Philadelphia and, for the first two months, Acentos Review, with support from the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC). The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Denice Frohman is a poet and performer from New York City. She has received support from The Pew Center for the Arts, Baldwin for the Arts, CantoMundo, Headlands Center for the Arts, NALAC, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, she has featured on hundreds of stages from The Apollo to The White House. Currently, Frohman is developing her one-woman show, Esto No Tiene Nombre, which centers the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders.
Gabriel Ramirez is a Queer Afro-Caribbean poet, activist, and teaching artist. A 2023 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry at Adroit Journal, Gabriel has received fellowships from Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Watering Hole, Miami Book Fair, CantoMundo, and Callaloo. Gabriel’s electrifying writing and performance are catalysts towards healing and brings awareness to mental health, Afro-Latinidad, the African Diaspora, self-care, masculinity, and social change.
Link
Contact info
sarahbrowningwriter@yahoo.com
Cost
Free with $5 suggested donation
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Event title
YA Novelist Candace Iloh
Start time
9/16/2024 6:00pm
Location
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Description
Candice Ilohis the award-winning author of young adult novels,Every Body Looking,Break This House,Salt the Water. A 2020 National Book Award Finalist and 2021 Printz Honoree, iloh is a first-generation Nigerian-American writer whose books center home. In 2018, they were awarded a Critical Breaks residency with Hi-ARTS to develop and perform a one-night-only stage production ofADA: On Stage, a multi-media one-person-show, introducing the audience to in-progress themes of their now critically-acclaimed debut novel. They are a proud alum of the Rhode Island Writers Colony and their work has earned fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA, Kimbilio Fiction and, most recently, The PEW Center for Arts & Heritage for 2023-2025. iloh is a former high school creative writing teacher who has previously taught young people of every age, from pre-K through high school. Their debut picture book,EMEKA: EAT EGUSI!will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2026.
Link
Contact info
wh@writing.upenn.edu
Cost
Free
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Event title
Free Library of Philadelphia Monday Poets 30th Anniversary Season
Start time
9/16/2024 6:00pm
Location
Parkway Central, 1901 Vine St, Skyline Room
Description
Join the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Literature Department in celebrating the 30th Anniversary season of Monday Poets. This year’s theme is Sankofa (SAHN-koh-fah), a Twi word from the Akan Tribe of Ghana which loosely implies that to move forward, one must “go back and get it”. In that spirit we will be celebrating at each event a past Monday Poet and introduce a new one. Each month from September 2024 to April 2025 a new Sankofa pair will read at a new library. Monday Poets exists to inspire and connect poets and community members across the city of Philadelphia.
This program will take place in the Skyline Room on the 4th Floor of Parkway Central and is free and open to the public. The event will be led by Philadelphia's current Poet Laureate, Kai Davis.
Previous Monday Poet: Michele Belluomini
Michele Belluomini’s poetry has been published in many print and online journals, and in various anthologies.Her chapbook, Crazy Mary & Others was a winner in the first Plan B Press competition.Her most recent volume of poetry is Signposts for Sleep Walkers. She was one of the winners of the 12th Annual John and Rose Petracca & Family Award for her poem, "La Befana." She works as Adjunct Library Faculty at Community College of Philadelphia.
New Monday Poet:Raina J. León
Raina J. León, PhD is Black, Afro-Boricua, and from Philadelphia (Lenni Lenape ancestral lands). She is the author of black god mother this body, Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman Dawn,sombra : (dis)locate, and the chapbooks, profeta without refuge and Areyto to Atabey: Essays on the Mother(ing) Self. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review, an online quarterly, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She currently supports poets and writers as faculty at the Stonecoast MFA at the University of Southern Maine.
Link
Contact info
215.686.5402
Cost
Free
