Philadelphia

Progressive Poetry Calendar

June Croon edition

 

 

June

 

13, Sunday, 2:00 PM: Tom Devaney will lead tours of the empty house of Edgar Allan Poe, coiner of the phrase “School of Quietude,” 532 N. Seventh Street, (215) 597-8780. RSVP please.

 

14, Monday, 6:00 PM: Linh Dinh, reading and signing from Blood and Soap, Borders, 1 S. Broad Street, 215-568-7400.

 

16, Wednesday, Noon-7:30 PM: Bloomsday, a reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses on the 100^th anniversary of the day on which it was set, The Rosenbach Museum, 2010 DeLancey Street (which owns Joyce’s typescript & will sell you a bound reproduction for $200 & change). If you would like to read, please contact Katie Samson, Bloomsday Coordinator, at 215.732.1600 or email bloomsday@rosenbach.org

 

then riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, to

Finnegans Wake

for

 

16, Wednesday, 7:00 PM: Concert for Kerry, emceed by XPN star & the godfather of folk Gene Shay, with special guest David Bromberg, So’s Your Mom, Psych-a-Billy, Beaucoup Blue, Mike Miller, Jazzmin, Saul Broudy & Frank Malley, Finnegans Wake, 3^rd & Spring Garden Streets, $12 online or $15 at the door. Take back the White House for Bloomsday!

 

19, Saturday, 2:00 PM: Tom Devaney will lead tours of the empty house of Edgar Allan Poe, coiner of the phrase “School of Quietude,” 532 N. Seventh Street, (215) 597-8780. RSVP please.

19, Saturday, 7:00 PM: Molly Russakoff reads from Naropaland, at Molly’s Bookstore, 1010 S. 9^th Street, in the © of the Italian Market, 215-923-3357

 

20, Sunday, 2:00 PM: Tom Devaney will lead tours of the empty house of Edgar Allan Poe, coiner of the phrase “School of Quietude,” 532 N. Seventh Street, (215) 597-8780. RSVP please.