Body Talk: an evening of readings

“I am not an intellectual. I write with my body.”
—Clarice Lispector

 

“Body-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody
Ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody (mwah)”
— Megan Thee Stallion

 

Come enjoy an evening hosted by visiting poet Emily Marie Passos Duffy and local author Leah Mele-Bazaz! This multigenre reading of prose, poetry, and hybrid forms will explore a spectrum of sensations from body horror to body elation. What are the limits of the body? How do factors such as ability, age, gender identity and expression, race, size, sexuality, illness, wellness, relationship with your environment, and more shape the language of your body?

 

TUESDAY, APRIL 11TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // SUGGESTED DONATION

 

Readings by your hosts and featured writers Jeannine A. Cook, Alexa Vallejo, K.P. Writ, and Nathan Alling Long explore these questions and delve into the ways bodies can hunger, betray us, support us, and teach us.

The event will include book signings, pop up flash readings, and more!

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Enjoy our new happy hour! All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• 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.

Spooky Poems 365

Spooky Poems 365 is titled as such because Halloween never leaves our hearts. A haunted poetry reading on the first of November. What’s scarier—ghosts, or the thought that winter is coming?

The reading takes place at Tattooed Mom’s from 6PM to 9PM. There are three featured readers, who will each read for 15 to 20 minutes. The featured readers will be followed by an open mic, hosted by Noah! Readers have 5 minutes to perform. Remember, the tone is spooky! Must be 21+ with valid ID to attend.

 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT

 

Featuring:
Lindsay Hargrave
Noah David Roberts
Robyn Hager

 

This event is obviously Halloween themed—but the idea came from Roberts’ most recent book, Final Girl Mythos, which is a collections of poems inspired by classic slasher movies. Roberts watched all the source movies over the summer—including watching films like Halloween and Friday the 13 th for the first time—and got really into the spooky spirit. Halloween is always with us! That is why the event is titled Spooky Poems 365.

 

Tattooed Mom will be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

You Can’t Kill A Poet // September 2022

YCKAP is back! Come hang at Tattooed Mom on September 21st, 2022! Doors at 7:30, reading is at 8! Hear poetry from amazing Philly local queer and trans poets. Can’t wait to see you there!

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST
DOORS @ 7:30PM + READING @ 8PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT

 

Featuring:
Kyle Lukoff
Trina Sanyal
Juju
Parker Sera
pony p.
Boston Gordon

 

Tattooed Mom will be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

You Can’t Kill A Poet: Pride Edition

Wanna kick off Pride weekend in Philly right? Come party with some queer and trans poets. We’re gonna hang at TMoms and share some words and bask in a room full of queer joy. Masks are welcome!

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 2ND
DOORS @ 7:30pm + SHOW 8PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT

 

Featuring:
Lauren Yates
Stephen Ira
Will Newman
Lydia Host
Inez Cavalho
Zach Blackwood

 

Tattooed Mom will be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

?th Annual Rock and Roll Reading: AWP Offsite Event

A dozen or so writers from across the country read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its precursors or offshoots). Each writer reads for just the length of a song.

 

Saturday, March 26th
3-5pm
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT

 

Featuring:
Nicky Beer
Kira Bell
Chelsea Biondolillo
Jenny May Brown
Aaron Burch
Blake Chernin
Celeste Doaks
Charlie J. Eskew
Jaime Fountaine
Megan Culhane Galbraith
Aubrey Hirsch
Dave Housley
Caroline Kim
Natalie Lima

 

Tattooed Mom will be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
Note: At this time, proof of vaccination is also required for entry.

Tire Fire & Mason Jar Press Present: AWP Offsite Reading

TIRE FIRE in conjunction with our dear friends MASON JAR PRESS presents our first reading in TWO YEARS, which just so happens to coincide with AWP. How convenient! TIRE FIRE is finally back home, upstairs at beautiful Tattooed Moms, with four incredible readers!

 

Thursday, March 24th
8-10pm
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT

 

Tattooed Mom will be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
Note: At this time, proof of vaccination is also required for entry.

 

READERS:

SARA LIPPMANN is the author of the story collections JERKS (Mason Jar Press, 2022) and Doll Palace (Dock Street Press), long-listed for the 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She was awarded an artist’s fellowship in fiction from New York Foundation for the Arts, and her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Millions, Fourth Genre, Slice Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Diagram, Squalorly and elsewhere. She’s landed on Wigleaf’s Top 50, and her stories have been anthologized in Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting (San Diego City Works Press) and forthcoming in New Voices: Contemporary Voices Confronting the Holocaust (Blue Lyra Press) and Best Small Fictions 2020 (Sonder Press). Raised outside of Philadelphia, she teaches in Brooklyn where she lives with her family and co-hosts the Sunday Salon NYC. Find her on Twitter: @saralippmann.

 

MIKE INGRAM’s stories and essays have appeared in publications including The North American Review, The Smart Set, EPOCH, and Medium’s Human Parts. He lives in Philadelphia, where he is an associate professor in the English department at Temple University, and co-host of the Book Fight podcast. He’s also a founding editor of Barrelhouse Magazine, and currently serves as its books editor. He usually co-hosts Tire Fire, but he’s got a BOOK OUT, Notes From the Road (Awst 2022), and we wanted to show him off. You can find him on Instagram and/or Twitter: @mikeingram00@mikeingram00.

 

CHRISTOPHER GONZALEZ is the author of I’M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT (SFWP, 2021) and a co-fiction editor of Barrelhouse Magazine. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Split Lip, Cosmonauts Avenue, Best Small Fictions, Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction, and elsewhere. Raised in Cleveland, he now lives in Brooklyn, NY and spends his waking hours tweeting about Oscar Isaac, book publishing, trash television, and Popeyes’ Spicy Chicken Sandwich. You can find him on Instagram and/or Twitter: @livesinpages / @livesinpages.

 

MONICA PRINCE teaches activist and performance writing at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem ([PANK], 2020), Instructions for Temporary Survival (Red Mountain Press, 2019), and Letters from the Other Woman (Grey Book Press, 2018). She is the managing editor of the SFWP Quarterly, and the co-author of the suffrage play, Pageant of Agitating Women, with Anna Andes. Her work appears in Wildness, The Missouri Review, The Texas Review, The Rumpus, MadCap Review, American Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. You can find her on Instagram and/or Twitter: @poetic_moni@poetic_moni.

 

Since we know traveling to Philadelphia and buying a million new books (and don’t even get us started on actually registering for a conference!) is costly, instead of taking up our usual collection, we encourage you to donate a few spare bucks or a hand to your local mutual aid groups when you’re able.

You Can’t Kill A Poet: AWP Offsite Reading

The RETURN of You Can’t Kill A Poet is finally here! YCKAP is a reading for queer and trans poets!

 

Wednesday, March 23rd
7:30-10pm
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT

 

Featuring:
Quinn Rodriguez
Sawyer Lovett
Cate McLaughlin
Nora Hikari
Boston Gordon
Will Newman

 

Tattooed Mom will be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
Note: At this time, proof of vaccination is also required for entry.

You Can’t Kill A Poet // February 2020

You Can’t Kill A Poet is back at it in the new decade! Come out and hear some of your fav local queer and trans poets and feel the queer magic.

Doors 7:30pm // Reading 8pm
Free & 21+

Norabot
J Kindt
Fiorella Flowers
Demetra Davis
Ry
Maze
Meg Pendoley

Enjoy this event with our Taco Tuesday specials:
$1 Tacos
$2.50 Tecate
special Taco of the Month,
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!

You Can’t Kill A Poet: December 2019

Celebrate another night of queer joy with You Can’t Kill a Poet! Join us for readings from queer and/or trans readers! Come hang with us and listen to some rad voices! Enjoy Tattooed Mom’s Taco Tuesday! Buy some chapbooks as presents for your people! Party like it’s the last YCKAP reading of 2019—because it is!

Doors 7:30pm // Reading 8pm
Free & 21+

READERS TBA

Enjoy this event with our Taco Tuesday specials:
$1 Tacos
$2.50 Tecate
a special Taco of the Month,
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!

Flood Moon Poetry Reading

Join local poets Kailey Tedesco, Carl Moon, and Lindsey Warren for a poetry reading at Tattooed Mom! Come on upstairs where there are delicious cocktails, a funky atmosphere, and stirring poetry!

FREE // UPSTAIRS // 21+

Doors 6pm // Reading 7-10pm

Featuring:
Kailey Tedesco
Carl Moon
& Lindsey Warren

Enjoy this event with Tattooed Mom’s Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ vegan potato & onion pierogi from noon-10pm
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!