“After a Scientific Theory of Love” by Elizabeth Scanlon
Elizabeth Scanlon is an editor of The American Poetry Review. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including Boston Review, Colorado Review, and Ploughshares, and in the anthologies Starting Today: Poems… Read More
Sarah Arvio and Ernest Hilbert at Penn Book Center
Join us for a tranquil winter Saturday afternoon of new poetry with Sarah Arvio, author of Night Thoughts (Knopf, 2013) and Ernest Hilbert, author of All of You on the Good Earth… Read More
“The Truth” by Dr. Dog
"As self-reinventions go, it doesn’t get much more extensive than Dr. Dog’s route on this year’s B-Room. For their seventh full-length, the band took to Clifton Heights to build up a new… Read More
Two Poems by Sarah Arvio
Sarah Arvio’s latest book is Night Thoughts: 70 Dream Poems & Notes from an Analysis, a hybrid work made up of poetry, essay, and memoir, published by Alfred A. Knopf. Her earlier… Read More
“Dear Lorine:” A.E. Clark
A.E. Clark received her B.A. from Beloit College and her M.F.A in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her poems and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in… Read More
“Exterminator” by Lucien Stryk
A translator and influential practitioner of Zen poetics, Lucien Stryk was born in Kolo, Poland, in 1924. He moved to Chicago with his family in 1927 and studied at Indiana University; the… Read More
“The God Fit” by Anne Carson, from “The Truth About God”
Anne Carson is a professor of Classics as well as a poet, essayist and translator. “In the small world of people who keep up with contemporary poetry,” wrote Daphne Merkin in the… Read More
“The Men in Blue” by Luke Stromberg
Luke Stromberg's work has appeared in several literary journals and has also been featured on multiple occasions in The Philadelphia Inquirer. He lives in Upper Darby, PA and works as an adjunct… Read More
“Romanticize Me” by Pissed Jeans
"Age and four full-lengths haven't mellowed Pissed Jeans; they can still unleash a blare that will exfoliate your cochlea. Formed in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Pissed Jeans released Shallow, their first album, in 2005.… Read More
“I Look for Love in Loss” by G.M. Palmer
G.M. Palmer lives with his wife and daughters in North Florida. His poetry and criticism can be found at E-Verse Radio, The Critical Flame, Contemporary Poetry Review, Anti-, Fried Chicken and Coffee,… Read More
“Samuel Pepys” by Geoffrey Nutter
Geoffrey Nutter was born in Sacramento, and attended San Francisco State University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He is the author of The Rose of January (Wave Books, 2013), Christopher Sunset (Wave… Read More
“Daytrips and Daydreams” by Warren Longmire
Warren Longmire is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of the Excelano Project Spoken Word Collective. When not building games and tuning websites, he can be found preforming at… Read More
“Merry Fucking Sestina” by Leonard Gontarek
Philadelphia poet Leonard Gontarek’s poetry collections include Déjà Vu Diner (2006) and St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris (1984). His poems have also been featured in Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual… Read More
“Telescope,” a Sci-Fi Short Directed by Collin Davis and Matt Litwiller
"The year is 2183. Earth is dead. With all evidence of organic life lost, a cosmic archaeologist travels faster than light into deep space to capture images of the once vibrant planet. When… Read More
“Et in Arcadia Ego” by James Matthew Wilson
James Matthew Wilson is the author of Four Verse Letters (Steubenville UP, 2010), a chapbook of poems, and Timothy Steele: A Critical Introduction (Story Line Press, 2012). His poems, essays, and… Read More
“RECORD/PLAY,” A Short Film by Jesse Atlas
"War, fate, and a broken Walkman transcend space and time in this sci-fi love story."… Read More
Incredible Sestinas Anthology Tour Kick-Off Reading in Philadelphia
Tonight, Wednesday January 15th, we kick off The Incredible Sestinas Anthology national tour with a bang right here in the cradle of liberty. Come one, come all, and bring a sestina to… Read More
“The Exposed Nest” by Robert Frost
"Frost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned a master-poet by world standards." - Robert Graves… Read More
“Status Update”: A Short Film Directed by Daniel Reisinger
Starring Adam Dunn, Kellie Clarke, Chum Ehelopela. Written by Dantie Van Der Merwe, David Fraser, Adam Dunn and Dan Reisinger.… Read More
“The Golden Shovel” by Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1971. Lighthead, his most recent poetry collection, won the 2010 National Book Award. His third collection, Wind in a Box (Pengiuin 2006), was… Read More
“The Groundhog” by Richard Eberhart
"Consciousness is still a vast reservoir of spirit which we only partially perceive. If we could see or feel beyond the human condition is it possible to think that we could feel… Read More
“Tell the Teller” by Toy Soldiers
''Toy Soldiers is a rowdy collection of five talented young musicians who have honed their sometimes soulful, often blues-y rock n roll with relentless touring during the last two years, growing into… Read More
“Across Kansas” by William Stafford
"William Stafford is a master. He belongs in that category of artists the Japanese have named 'national treasures' . . . I believe Willliam Stafford will be read with even greater attention… Read More
“How to Sharpen Pencils”: A Short Film by Kenneth Price and David Rees
"A practical and theoretical treatise on the artisanal craft of pencil sharpening. The number one #2 pencil sharpener in the world, David Rees takes viewers through the delicate process of sharpening a… Read More
“All Day Dance” by Thomas Devaney
Thomas Devaney is the author of The Picture That Remains (The Print Center, Philadelphia, 2014), A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum, 2007), The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press, 1999),… Read More
“We Think We Know How Art and Music Affect Us”: Stephen Fry Hosts “The Science of Opera,” a Discussion of How Music Moves Us Physically to Tears
"In an exciting world first, The Science of Opera with Stephen Fry and Alan Davies saw a team of medical scientists from UCL discovering what happens inside us when we go to… Read More
“To a Dead Lover” by Louis Bogan
"Behind the Bogan poems is a woman, intense, proud, strong-willed. . . . Her poems can be read and reread: they keep yielding new meanings, as all good poetry should. The ground… Read More
“Pink Ruff” by Bleeding Rainbow
"Nevermind the constant threat of a cease and desist letter, when Carrie Brownstein tells you that your band name is weak, you change it. But it isn’t as simple as a name… Read More
“Up High, No Higher” by David Yezzi
David Yezzi’s poetry collections include Azores (2008) and The Hidden Model (2003), and his criticism and poetry have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and Best… Read More
“God Forbid You Should Follow Your Dreams”: Check Out the Rock Film Losers Take All
"Losers Take All: A hapless but talented mid-1980s indie rock band tries their hardest to blow a record deal, a tour, and their friendship, but can’t even manage to succeed at failure."… Read More