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March 2024

You Can’t Kill A Poet // March 2024

WedWed
March 20March 20
8:00 pm10:00 pm

We’re back at it again in 2024! We’ll be at Tattooed Mom on Wednesday, March 20th for some gayyyy poems. Doors at 7:30pm, reading at 8pm. Come hang out in our joyous and boisterous room full of queerness and listen to some amazing poets share their work.

 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20TH
DOORS @ 7:30PM + SHOW @ 8PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT

 

Featured Readers:
Boston Gordon
Claudia Cortese
Ber the Poet
Temi 
Ari Villeda Martinez
Sarah Solomon

 

Follow You Can’t Kill A Poet on Instagram.

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What’s Up at TMoms:

Wednesday, 4-10pm | Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Recently named one of the top burgers in the city by The Philadelphia Inquirer!

Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

 

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Scribes On South // March 2024

SunSun
March 31March 31
6:00 pm9:00 pm

SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. The reading begins with a 20-minute featured reader and then moves through the open mic list for the rest of the night. Open mic readers have 5 minutes. There will be a space for poets to sell books.

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

This reading’s featured readers are Brian Graves and Eden Vernier.

Read poems. Kick ass.

 

SUNDAY, MARCH 31ST
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

 

Prone to writing since childhood, it wasn’t until adulthood that poetry surprisingly became Brian’s medium of choice. Their work focuses on the romances of life, the weight of relationships, endlessly unraveling gender, and living in a body, often expressing these themes through symbols of nature. Brian continuously seeks vulnerability and comfort in their work and hopes that other queer and trans people of color can find that same safety in the writing.

 

Eden Vernier is. What else is there to say? Her interests include primal rage and the end of all things. Burn it down, baby! Eden Vernier is.

 

Follow @scribesonsouth on Instagram.

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

Sundays, All Day Long | Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom!

Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

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April 2024

Top 5 Lit Reading

MonMon
April 15April 15
7:00 pm9:00 pm

You haven’t been to a literary event this good before. Or maybe you have, but you definitely haven’t been to five events better.

Please join Jiordan Castle, Warren Longmire, Michael B. Tager and Pantea Tofangchi and listen to them read the heck out of their writing. Poets, prose and mixed-genre, they’re all available at this event. And they all have new or new-ish books!

 

MONDAY, APRIL 15TH
7-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: EVENTBRITE

 

Jiordan Castle is the author of Disappearing Act, a memoir in verse. Her work has appeared in HuffPostThe New YorkerThe RumpusTaco Bell Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is a contributor to the LA-based food and culture magazine Compound Butter. Originally from New York, she has an MFA in Poetry from Hunter College and lives in Philadelphia.

Warren is a writer, technologist, educator and uncle from the bad part of Philadelphia. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and founder of _mixlit. Warren’s words have been published in journals including Cartridge Lit, The Cleveland Review of Books, Eleven Eleven and The American Poetry Review. He was featured in the Best American Poetry 2021, edited by Patricia Smith. His latest book, Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop] was released in Nov. 2022 through BUNNY Presse.

Michael B. Tager is the Managing Editor of Mason Jar Press and an occasional writer of poetry and prose. He’s the author of Pop Culture Poetry: The Definitive Edition (Akinoga Press, ’24). He prefers not to end his sentences on an infinitive, but only because it’s a challenge, not because he thinks it’s a good rule (it isn’t).

Pantea A. Tofangchi is an Iranian-American poet, writer and graphic designer. She is the Art Director and graphic designer for Advertising Media Plus and The Business Monthly. She writes poems (in English), essays, stories and plays (mostly in Persian.) Her work has been published in PloughsharesLittle Patuxent ReviewWelter Atlanta Review–in which she won the International Merit Award–and other journals. She was selected as a finalist for The National Poetry Series’ 2016 and Georgia Poetry Prize 2018.

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

Mondays, 4-11pm | Prepare yourselves—Meatless Monday is back at Tattooed Mom (with a twist)!!!!!!!!! Every two months we’ll be highlighting a different vegan menu item every Monday. See what’s on special this month!

Mondays, Upstairs 6-11pm | We see free 🎱 in your future! Introducing Free Pool Mondays upstairs at TMoms!

Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

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Slutty Poems Night // April 2024

WedWed
April 17April 17
6:00 pm9:30 pm

That c*mmy smell in the air might be the aroma of those infamous Bradford Pear trees OR it could mean that the time has come (see what I did there?) again for another edition of Slutty Poems Night! Celebrate a night full of salacious sex and sexuality themed words. This is a free event but donations are being collected for Middle East Childrens Alliance.

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
SUGGESTED DONATION | NOTAFLOF

 

Feature poets Peter Webb & Seamus start the night off.

Bring your hoe shit for the open mic hosted by Kate Carey. If you’re too shy to share, feel free to shove something into our (anonymous confessions) box.

This is a sex positive space that is not tolerant of any racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, fat shaming, slut shaming, or any general bigoted fuckery. 21+ w/ valid ID.

Doors @ 6 pm, show @ 7 pm. Accessibility Note: We welcome mask wearing and if you are not feeling well, please stay home. Event is upstairs- Stairs are a bit steep. Seating is limited. Contact Kate through DM if accommodations are needed.

 

Follow @sluttypoemsnight on Instagram for updates
Flyer by @perpetualsketch

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What’s Up at TMoms:

Wednesday, 4-10pm | Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Recently named one of the top burgers in the city by The Philadelphia Inquirer!

Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

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The Happening: A Live Reading

MonMon
April 22April 22
7:00 pm9:00 pm

There appears to be an event occuring.

Join Theatre Contra, just in time for Earth Day, as we perform what is arguably the most logical movie to ever exist: M. Night Shymalan’s The Happening! We’re back at Tattooed Mom, so grab a drink, hop in a bumper car and get ready to yell at some plastic plants.

 

MONDAY, APRIL 22ND
7-9PM
SUGGESTED DONATION $10 | VIP SEATING $15 | NOTAFLOF
RSVP: FB EVENT | VIP TICKETS: TICKETLEAP

 

Directed by Adam Howard

All VIP tickets come with 4 complimentary raffle tickets and a guaranteed optimal view seat.

Featuring:
TBA

VIP Tickets available in advance. General Admission (PWYC) available at the door.

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

Mondays, 4-11pm | Prepare yourselves—Meatless Monday is back at Tattooed Mom (with a twist)!!!!!!!!! Every two months we’ll be highlighting a different vegan menu item every Monday. See what’s on special this month!

Mondays, Upstairs 6-11pm | We see free 🎱 in your future! Introducing Free Pool Mondays upstairs at TMoms!

Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

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May 2024

Scooby Doo: A Live Reading

WedWed
May 15May 15
7:00 pm9:00 pm

Now who’s the damsel in distress?

Hop in your mystery machine, grab your scooby snacks, and join Theatre Contra, as we solve the mystery of Spooky Island and perform 2002’s Scooby Doo LIVE! We’re back at Tattooed Mom, so grab a drink, hop in a bumper car, and get ready to fight off some monsters and hormones!

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15th
7-9PM
SUGGESTED DONATION $10 | VIP SEATING $15 | NOTAFLOF
RSVP: FB EVENT | VIP TICKETS: TICKETLEAP

 

Directed by Abby Weissman

All VIP tickets come with 4 complimentary raffle tickets and a guaranteed optimal view seat.

Featuring:
TBA

VIP Tickets available in advance. General Admission (PWYC) available at the door.

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

Wednesday, 4-10pm | Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Recently named one of the top burgers in the city by The Philadelphia Inquirer!

Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

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June 2024

Breaking the Curse Book Launch

WedWed
June 5June 5
7:00 pm9:00 pm

Come join Philly faves Alexandra Naughton, Sawyer Lovett, and Daniel DiFranco for the release of Alex DiFrancesco’s new book, Breaking the Curse: A Memoir about Trauma, Healing, and Italian Witchcraft. Readers will each be on stage for 15 minutes followed by a book signing. But! There’s more! Tarot readings! Spell jars! We could even play “light as a feather, stiff as a board,” if you’re into it! But there will definitely be tarot readings and spell jars.

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5th
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT 

 

Alex DiFrancesco is the author of Psychopomps, All City, Transmutaion, and Breaking the Curse. Their work has appeared in New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Tin House, Brevity, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and more. They are the first transgender awards finalist in over 80 years of the Ohioana Book Awards, and the winner of the 2022 Ohio Arts Councli’s Individual Excellence Award. They are the human companion of two rescues, Roxy Music, Dog of Doom (a Westhighland Terrier), and Janglin’ Jack (some kind of cat).

Sawyer Lovett is a trans writer living just outside of Philadelphia by way of Tazewell, VA. He’s a graduate of the Rosemont College MFA program and the human parent to two chaotic rescue dogs. He is an accomplished balloon twister, a pretty good barista, and an occasional bookseller.

Alexandra Naughton is the author of ten poetry collections. Her first novel, American Mary, won the 2015 Mainline contest by Civil Coping Mechanisms and was published in 2016. Her work has been featured in Dusie, Sporklet, sin cesar, Maudlin House, carte blanche, and elsewhere. She writes Talk About It on Substack, and organizes the Bring A Blanket reading series in Philadelphia. Find her on instagram: @alexandranaughton

Daniel DiFranco is a writer/musician/teacher from Philadelphia. He is the author of two novels, Panic Years (Tailwinds Press, 2018) and Devil On My Trail (Unsolicited Press, 2024). His short stories can be found in Smokelong Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Fractured Lit, and others. Full list of pubs and miscellany can be found at danieldifranco.com.

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

Wednesday, 4-10pm | Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Recently named one of the top burgers in the city by The Philadelphia Inquirer!

Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

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