We’re back for a very special Friday the 13th Tire Fire with Kristen Iskandrian, Tommy Pico, Sarah Rose Etter, and Christopher Gonzales.

Tire Fire will be passing around the hat to raise money for the CHOP Adolescent Initiative, who have been a leader in the evaluation, prevention and care of adolescents living with HIV and prevention to high-risk youth. The clinic provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary primary and HIV specialty care since 1993.

Doors at 7, readings start at 8.

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If you should find yourself craving some live readings, come out & listen to the words of Kailey Tedesco, Lexi Spino, Ashley Coady, and B. Diehl.

Doors at 7pm, NO admission!
FREE Arts & Crafts
$2 Pabst Blue Ribbon 16oz. pounders & 1/2 price tater tots after 7pm

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You Can’t Kill A Poet features a lineup of queer and/or trans identified poets and writers sharing their work and making you snap, clap, and swoon. Hosted by Boston Gordon, this gang is newly funded by the Leeway Foundation!

This month’s lineup:
Lilith Kulp
Terra Oh
Laura Kochman
Daniel Barnum
Noemi Charlotte Thieves

FREE Admission!
$1 tacos (until we run out!)
$2.50 Tecates!

Tire Fire presents an evening of literature with Michael Konik, Michelle Junot, Bud Smith, & Irène Mathieu.  It’s also the Philly book release for Michael Konik’s YEAR 14, from Barrelhouse Books.

All donations collected will go to the CHOP Adolescent Initiative, who have been a leader in the evaluation, prevention, & care of adolescents living with HIV and prevention to high-risk youth. The clinic provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary primary and HIV specialty care since 1993.

Doors at 7, readings start around 8

FREE admission!
50¢ pierogi from until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

November is gonna be BIG! This month’s Tire Fire literary event features NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Carmen Machado, honorary Philadelphian Dave K., triple threat (author/educator/dj) Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela & noted writer of fiction and frump Emma Eisenberg.

All donations collected will be sent to Juntos, “a community-led, Latinx immigrant organization in South Philadelphia fighting for our human rights as workers, parents, youth, and immigrants. We believe that every human being has the right to a quality education and the freedom to live with dignity regardless of immigration status.”  And, as always, TMoms will be matching every donation.

Doors at 7, readings start around 8
50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

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The last Accidental Player of 2017 brings Cynthia Dewi Oka, Scott Daughtridge, Sham-e-Ali Nayeem & Emma Brown Sanders together for your listening pleasure!

Doors open at 7pm and the readings start at 8pm
FREE admission!
50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

Come celebrate the holidays by unwrapping & unravelling with local poets Alina Pleskova, Stephanie Kaylor, Raquel Salas Rivera, Raena Shirali & Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela.

There will be booze; there will be vibes; there will likely be a lot of hugging. Plus, the poets will have books for sale. Let’s get festive!!

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

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John O. Mason presents an evening of literature with local Philly poets Frank Sherlock and Irving Jones.

Frank Sherlock is the author of Life Is to Blame for Everything, Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated, Over Here, The City Real & Imagined (w/ CAConrad) and a collaboration with Brett Evans entitled Ready-to-Eat Individual. Poems beyond the page have found their forms in installations/performances/exhibitions, including Organize Your Own: The Politics & Poetics of Self-Determination. He is a 2013 Pew Fellow and 2014-15 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.

John O. Mason will have copies of his anthology, All Of The Above, along with two other poetry volumes.

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