Accidental Player returns with an all-new lineup of local poets & authors! This month features Steven Karl, Raena Shirali, Boston Gordon, and Steven Perez.

Doors at 7pm and reading at 8pm
FREE Admission!
$2 Pabst Blue Ribbon 16oz. pounders starting at 7pm
1/2 price tater tots starting at 7pm

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You Can’t Kill A Poet presents July Westhale who is coming to Philadelphia to share work from her new book Trailer Trash, winner of the 2016 Kore Press Book Award!

Also featuring local poets Alina Pleskova, Zach Blackwood, Raquel Salas Rivera & Boston Gordon.

Come out to welcome July & celebrate the badass work of queer and trans poets. FREE admission! Readings start at 7:30.

$1 all beef or veggie bean tacos…until we run out!
$2.50 Tecates all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

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BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH…Tire Fire is back with live readings from Sarah Gerard, Amy Saul-Zerby, Ian Carlos Crawford, and Amish Trivedi!

Donations will be collected for Prevention Point Philadelphia, an organization providing harm reduction services to Philadelphia and the surrounding area, and will be matched by TMoms!

Doors at 7, readings start around 8.

50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

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NOTE: Due to winter storm weather the readers will not be able to make to Philadelphia. This event is POSTPONED and will be rescheduled for May. Watch this space for a new date!

Come out and support our talented Philadelphia poets for an evening of live readings & poetry, and celebrate as Shy Watson releases their new poetry collection, Cheap Yellow.

Bound books & zines will be available for purchase…get the authors to sign them before they’re too famous for TMoms!

amy saul-zerby
prairie m faul
zach blackwood 
ash strange
ted tarnovski
shy watson

FREE admission!
Starts at 7pm

$4 Mom’s Burgers & Mom’s Vegan Burgers until midnight
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

Our flagship literary reading series Tire Fire is back with another stellar line up of writers to kick off the spring season at Mom's. This month's line up includes: TOM MCALLISTER is the author of the novels How to Be Safe and The Young Widower's Handbook. He co-hosts the Book Fight! podcast and works as non-fiction editor for Barrelhouse. He lives in New Jersey and teaches at Temple University.DAN BRADY is the author of the poetry collection Strange Children, forthcoming…

We are so happy to bring YesYes Books and a night of amazing poetry to Tattooed Mom! Readers: Kayleb Rae Candrilli Caylin Capra-Thomas Brandon Courtney Jamie Mortara Gala Mukomolova Raena Shirali NO COVER Enjoy our regular Burger Wednesday's Specials: $4 Mom's Burgers and Mom's Vegan Burgers, 12pm-12am Half off all drafts 10-11pm and check out April's Burger of the Month, Get Crazy: all beef or veggie burger, zatar spiced fried pita strips, spicy red pepper hummus, and mediterranean cucumber salad. Join the…

Readers: Kirwyn Sutherland Raena Shirali Ashley Davis Frank Sherlock Sanam Sheriff Gabriel Ojeda-Sague Written in response the PROMESA bill (Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act) bill, Raquel Salas Rivera's LO TERCIARIO/THE TERTIARY offers a decolonial queer critique and reconsideration of Marx. The book’s titles come from Pedro Scaron’s, El Capital, the 1976 translation of Karl Marx’s classic. Published by Siglo Veintiuno Editores, this translation was commonly used by the Puerto Rican left as part of political formation programs.…