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July 2025
Scribes on South // July 2025
SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. Open mic readers have 5 minutes.
SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!
Read poems. Kick ass.
This reading’s featured reader is Lauren Yates.
SUNDAY, JULY 27TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
Lauren Yates (she/her)is a Philadelphia-based poet and burlesque performer. Lauren earned her B.A. in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis from the University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Philadelphia Burlesque Academy. Lauren’s poetry has been featured in APIARY, Bettering American Poetry, bedfellows, and more. She is known for critiquing pop culture with a wry sense of humor and Frankenstein-ing together concepts that should not work, but, somehow, do.
Follow @scribesonsouth on Instagram.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Sundays, All Day Long | if u didn’t get glitter in ur drink did you even craft sunday? Craft Sundays at TMoms every sunday, play both upstairs and downstairs. u heard me, both.
• Daily Happy Hour | $4 drafts every day from 4-6pm, everybody cheered!
• 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.
Find out more »Littérateur Libations & Risqué Readings // July 2025
Congregate for drinks and conversation with those who either create or enjoy reading
sensual, sexual, romantic, erotic writings. Come early at 6 p.m. to take advantage of the
affordably priced Hemingway Happy Hour for good drinks and good food, including the
famous Smash Burger Wednesday special! After a few libations, if you are an erotica
writer of short stories or novellas or novels or poems or any other form – whether
amateur or professional or somewhere in between – feel free to take the stage around
7ish p.m. to read and share with all attendees your titillating creativity. Or indulge as an
audience member by listening to the impassioned words of others. Expect to hear some
steamy stories and poems on a September evening. This is a 21+ event. Showing valid
ID will be required to enter and participate.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Wednesday, 4-10pm | they’re a smash hit for a reason. Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! u heard that right! + $3 PBR! RUN!!!
• Daily Happy Hour | $4 drafts every day from 4-6pm, everybody cheered!
• 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.
Find out more »August 2025
Delilah McCrea Book Launch and Signing
The Philadelphia launch of Book of Flowers, the debut poetry collection by writer Delilah McCrea. With Alex DiFrancesco.
MONDAY, AUGUST 4TH
8PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
Follow Alex DiFrancesco and Delilah McCrea on Instagram.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Mondays, 4-11pm | mom’s marvelous meatless mondays?? Say it 3 times fast and see what happens. we dare u. Meatless Monday is here at TMoms from open ’till close. See what’s on special this month!
• Mondays, Upstairs 6-11pm | cue ball as bright as ur future. Free Pool Mondays upstairs at TMoms continues!
• Daily Happy Hour | $4 drafts every day from 4-6pm, everybody cheered!
• 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.
Find out more »Poetry Reading: Courtney LeBlanc & Miriam Kramer
Join us at Tattooed Mom on Thursday, August 7th at 7pm for a Poetry Reading with Courtney LeBlanc and Miriam Kramer. Free!
THURSDAY, AUGUST 7TH
7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
Follow Courtney LeBlanc and Miriam Kramer on Instagram.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Thursdays, 4-10pm | we support bad decisions but this isn’t one of them. 75¢ pierogis all day for Pierogi Thursday … with all the toppings & sauces ur heart desires + $3 cans of tecate!!!
• Daily Happy Hour | $4 drafts every day from 4-6pm, everybody cheered!
• 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.
Find out more »Scribes on South // August 2025
SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. Open mic readers have 5 minutes.
SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!
Read poems. Kick ass.
This reading’s featured readers are Atlas St. Cloud & C.R. Hooker
SUNDAY, AUGUST 31ST
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
ATLAS ST. CLOUD: IG @DRDISSOCIATION
BIO: atlas st cloud is a wasteland haunt. he writes about gender, faggotry, & Madness through the lens of physical disability. unavoidably raised mormon & in lust with the catholic aesthetic, st cloud’s religious trauma manifests in his blasphemous body horror. check out his catalogue with Kith Books and catch him on most social media sites @drdissociation
C.R. HOOKER: IG @COWBOY.JINGLE
BIO: c.r. hooker (they/them) is a nonbinary, bisexual poet and artist born and raised in the unforgiving heat of the Arizona desert. c.r. graduated from the University of Arizona with a BA in Creative Writing & a BA in Film & Television studies. They are the photographer for Scribes on South and currently call the concrete jungle of Philadelphia their home. Their work has been featured in fifth wheel press and they aspire to publish many more pieces and eventually a collection of poetry (so stay tuned!) When not writing poetry, they can be found covered in paint or playing with their cat.
Follow @scribesonsouth on Instagram.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Sundays, All Day Long | if u didn’t get glitter in ur drink did you even craft sunday? Craft Sundays at TMoms every sunday, play both upstairs and downstairs. u heard me, both.
• Daily Happy Hour | $4 drafts every day from 4-6pm, everybody cheered!
• 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.
Find out more »September 2025
Book Launch Party: Rehoming Breanna Huxley
Join us for a release party for Keli O’Connor’s debut novel, Rehoming Breanna Huxley. An hour long event with giveaways, takeaways, and photos at the bumper car. Free admission, 21+ to attend.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Sundays, All Day Long | if u didn’t get glitter in ur drink did you even craft sunday? Craft Sundays at TMoms every sunday, play both upstairs and downstairs. u heard me, both.
• Daily Happy Hour | $4 drafts every day from 4-6pm, everybody cheered!
• 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.
Find out more »You Can’t Kill A Poet // September 2025
A reading for queer and trans poets.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH
DOORS @ 7:30PM + SHOW @ 8PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
Alexa Vallejo is a transfemme child of Filipino immigrants living in West Philadelphia. Her writing has appeared in Illuminations, Discount Guillotine, swamp pink, Black Fox Literary Magazine, and TriQuarterly, among others. Her first chapbook, Girls Love, was recently published by Bottlecap Press. Alexa is also a musician who performs in musical theater pit orchestras and cabarets throughout the Philadelphia region, as well as the goth band Morgue Arcana. She grew up in Newark, Delaware.
Allen Means is a queer, trans poet from Boulder, CO, currently living in Philadelphia with his partner, Carlos, and cat, Chihiro. He holds an MFA from the University of Miami, where he was a James A. Michener Fellow. His work appears in South Florida Poetry Journal, Voicemail Poems, Variant Lit, and Seventh Wave Mag, among others. He hopes that his poems leave you with delight and hope for something new.
Emily Rose Reed is a queer trans chaotic mess of a DIY musician, writer, and all around sweetie from Philly/South Jersey who makes music under the name How I Became Invisible. If you have a band she’s probably in it, and she might also be your girlfriend. Find her music at howibecameinvisible.com, and everywhere except Spotify because they’re a garbage company.
Viveca loves to write and is just happy to be here.
Mateo Souada (they/them) is a Queer Muslim poet whose experiences as a gender non-conforming child of immigrants, eldest daughter, and survivor color their work. Using poetry, Mateo asserts the fact that Queer Muslims, trans people, and BIPOC often work tirelessly to curate safe environments and provide space for the marginalized to move beyond survival. Mateo is a 2019 Pink Door fellow, Collegiate Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) 2017 Co-Champion, Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam 2018 Runner-Up, and currently performs with the Philly Pigeon poetry collective. They have been published in What Are Birds Journal, Rigorous Journal, Ghost Heart Literary Journal, Colorbloq Mag, and more. Recently, they won the Leeway Transformation Award from the Leeway Foundation in Philadelphia.
Mariah Ayscue (he/him/king) is a Black, Trans, Intersex, Artist, Activist, and mental health advocate from Montclair NJ. He also identifies as a Christian Witch, Disco Ball Dyke, Pansexual pancake, and a Demisexual dream that is expressed through his poetry. His full-length book WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN is published with Beyond 28 Publishing. King was also chosen to perform his poetry for the 2024 Dodge Poetry Festival with NJPAC. He is also the founder of the Bearded Lady Rebellion Collective which focuses on reclaiming the narratives, education, and healing of Trans and Intersex people with an emphasis on QTBIPOC lives. It is the work he wants to do for the rest of his life.
Tyrell Brown (They/Them) is a Philadelphia-based advocate, organizer, and community leader who has served as the City’s Director of LGBTQ+ Affairs and as Executive Director of GALAEI. They are the Founder and current Executive Director of Philly Pride 365, where they reimagined Pride as a year-round movement centered on inclusivity, cultural vibrancy, and community care. Through their work, Tyrell continues to build spaces where joy, justice, and representation thrive for LGBTQIA+ communities.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Tuesdays, 4-10pm | it’s tacos. it’s tecate. it’s tuesdays. what more can we say. $1.50 beef or bean tacos every Taco Tuesday + $3 tecate!
• Daily Happy Hour | $4 drafts every day from 4-6pm, everybody cheered!
• 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.
Find out more »Rutgers-Camden Presents: A Night of Poetry and Prose // September 2025
Current students from the Rutgers-Camden MFA Program will read from their works in progress, across all genres.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
Lineup:
Tembisa Aborn
Duboree Das
Bronwen Everill
Dani Guerrero
Leah Pellegrini
Kat Richter
Eryn Sunnolia
Doris Zheku
Follow Rutgers-Camden MFA on Instagram.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Wednesday, 4-10pm | they’re a smash hit for a reason. Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! u heard that right! + $3 PBR! RUN!!!
• Daily Happy Hour | $4 drafts every day from 4-6pm, everybody cheered!
• 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.
Find out more »Scribes on South // September 2025
SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. Open mic readers have 5 minutes.
SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
Nyeree Boyadjian is an Armenian-American poet from Queens, New York. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from The University of the Arts, and an MFA in poetry from The University of California, Davis.
Follow @scribesonsouth on Instagram.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Sundays, All Day Long | if u didn’t get glitter in ur drink did you even craft sunday? Craft Sundays at TMoms every sunday, play both upstairs and downstairs. u heard me, both.
• Daily Happy Hour | $4 drafts every day from 4-6pm, everybody cheered!
• 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.
Find out more »October 2025
Littérateur Libations & Risqué Readings // October 2025
Congregate for drinks and conversation with those who either create or enjoy reading
sensual, sexual, romantic, erotic writings. Come early at 6 p.m. to take advantage of the
affordably priced Hemingway Happy Hour for good drinks and good food, including the
famous Smash Burger Wednesday special! After a few libations, if you are an erotica
writer of short stories or novellas or novels or poems or any other form – whether
amateur or professional or somewhere in between – feel free to take the stage around
7ish p.m. to read and share with all attendees your titillating creativity. Or indulge as an
audience member by listening to the impassioned words of others. Expect to hear some
steamy stories and poems on an October evening. This is a 21+ event. Showing valid
ID will be required to enter and participate.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1ST
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
Follow X on Instagram.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Wednesday, 4-10pm | they’re a smash hit for a reason. Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! u heard that right! + $3 PBR! RUN!!!
• Daily Happy Hour | $4 drafts every day from 4-6pm, everybody cheered!
• 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.
Find out more »
